Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbors and destruction of the environment?
The rapid industrialization of Japan led to wars and destruction of the environment due to the following reasons:
1. The development of industries affected the environment in many ways.
2. It led to the exploitation of natural resources.
3. To obtain raw material and for the consumption of furnished products the need of colonies was felt.
Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?
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?
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?
What were the interesting features of the inventions of this period?
Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.
Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialization.
Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?
What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?
Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.
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?
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.