Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Paths to Modernisation NCERT Solutions | How did the Qing dynasty try and meet th

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?

Which of the following do you think is best documented in the archaeological record: (a) gathering, (b) tool making, (c) the use of fire?

Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?

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

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

Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?

Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

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

What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

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