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?
How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan.
Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.
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 ?
Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.
How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
How were Islamic architectural forms different from those of the Roman Empire?
What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?
Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?
What were the features of humanist thought?