Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Confrontation of Cultures NCERT Solutions | How did the discovery of South America l

Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.

What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the 5th century to venture across the Atlantic.
 

Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.
 

What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?

How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?

Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?

Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?

How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
 

Keeping the nomadic element of the Mongol and Bedouin societies in mind, how, in your opinion, did their respective historical experiences differ? What explanations would you suggest account for these differences?

Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialization.

Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?

Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

Why would the early temple have been much like a house?

What was the function of medieval monasteries?

‘If history relies upon written records produced by city-based literati, nomadic societies will always receive a hostile representation.’ Would you agree with this statement? Does it explain the reason why Persian chronicles produced such inflated figures of casualties resulting from Mongol campaigns?