History Question Paper 2022 [AHSEC Class 11 History Question Paper]

History Question Paper 2022
[AHSEC Class 11  History Question Paper]

Full Marks: 100

Time: 3 hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

1. Answer the following questions:              1x12=12

(a) What does the word ‘Homo sapiens’ mean?

(b) Who was Inanna?

(c) Who authored Rajatarangini?

(d) What is ‘Dawa’?

(e) Who discovered the theory of gravity?

(f) Name the first printed book.

(g) Who first wrote the Geography of Africa?

(h) When did Columbus reach America?

(i) Who was Naito Konan?

(j) Who invented the spinning jenny?

(k) In which year was the ‘Suez Canal’ opened as trade route?

(l) Who was the founder of modern China?

2. Answer the following questions in brief:            2x12=24

(a) Write two differences between hominids and hominoids.

(b) What is Warka Head?

(c) Name two industries developed in the Roman Empire.

(d) What is Islamic calendar?

(e) Write two characteristics of feudalism.

(f) Name two intellectual women of 15^th-16^th century Europe.

(g) What is humanism?

(h) What do you mean by cosmography?

(i) Write two clauses of the ‘Ten Hours’ Bill’.

(j) What is Luddism?

(k) Name two major rivers of China.

(l) What is Triangular Trade?

3. Answer the following questions:          4x10=40

(a) Write a short note on the Great Palace of Mari.

(b) Write about the tools of early human.

(c) Write a short note on Geniza record.

(d) Discuss briefly about the social hierarchy in Roman Empire.

(e) Write about the Incas of Peru.

(f) Compare the details of Italian architecture and Islamic architecture of 14^th -17^th century.

(g) Discuss about the functions of medieval monasteries.

(h) Who was Sun Yat-sen? What were his three principles?

(i) How did the Industrial Revolution affect the life of British women?

(j) How did Korea deal with the foreign currency crisis in 1997?

4. Answer the following questions:              6x4=24

(a) Discuss about the lives of the Bedouins in the early 7^th century.

Or

(b) Discuss the causes of the fall of Caliphate.

(c) Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.

Or

(d) Discuss about the voyages of explorations by the Europeans.

(e) How did the development of canals and railways help in the Industrial Revolution?

Or

(f) Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbours and destruction of the environment. Explain.

(g) Draw a map of Britain and show three iron and three coal manufacturing areas.

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(h) Discuss about the iron and coal industries of Britain.