Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Displacing Indigenous Peoples NCERT Solutions | What did the ‘frontier’ mean

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

What were the features of humanist thought?

Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.

Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in liberating China and laying the basis for its current success?

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

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

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

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

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