Imagine and describe a day in the life of a craftsman in a medieval French town.
Students are advised to answer this question with the help of their teachers. Following guidelines are given to complete this task:
1. Craftsmen worked under the supervision of guilds. They were skilled persons.
2. Trading guilds controlled and supervised their activities and took great care of their needs.
Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.
What was the function of medieval monasteries?
Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?
How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
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?
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.
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?
Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?
What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?
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.
Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth century Europeans.
How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan.
Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol tribes into new social and military groupings?
Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialization.
How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
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?
What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?