Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?
Earlier in Japan, the patriarchal household system prevailed. In it, many generations lived together under the control of the head of the family. New ideas of the family spread. People became more affluent. Homu, the new home was a nuclear family where husband and wife lived together. The new concept of domesticity generated demands for new types of domestic goods and new forms of farming.
How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
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?
Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbors and destruction of the environment?
What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?
What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?
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?
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
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 did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
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?
Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol tribes into new social and military groupings?
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.
Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?
What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?
Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.
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.