How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
The Qing dynasty could not meet the challenges posed by the Western powers. They utterly failed. The Qing dynasty also demanded change in the country. But they alsom failed in this endeavour.
Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?
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?
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?
How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?
How were Islamic architectural forms different from those of the Roman Empire?
How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe
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 do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.
How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan.