Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Displacing Indigenous Peoples NCERT Solutions | Comment on any points of difference betw

How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.

Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in 19th century USA?

Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?

What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?
 

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 ?

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

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

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?

Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.

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

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?

Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?

Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.

What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?

Discuss the arguments advanced in favour of the regional continuity model of human origins. Do you think it provides a convincing explanation of the archaeological evidence? Give reasons for your answer.

Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.