History Question Paper 2024 [AHSEC Class 11 History Question Paper]

History Question Paper 2024
[AHSEC Class 11 History Question Paper]

Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: 3 hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

1. Answer the following questions (any twelve):                    1x12=12

(a) Who authored the book, On the Origin of Species?

(b) From which language is the word ‘Mesopotamia’ derived?

(c) What were ‘Maqamat’?

(d) Who was the first II-Khanid ruler to convert to Islam?

(e) Who was Tacitus?

(f) Who paid the ‘Baj’ tax?

(g) Name the famous work of Marc Bloch.

(h) When was the French Revolution started?

(i) Name the first novel of the world.

(j) In which year was the Battle of Panipat fought?

(k) Who built the first iron bridge in the world?

(l) Who invented the spinning jenny?

(m) When was Sydney founded?

(n) Who wrote The Travels?

2. Answer the following questions in brief (any twelve):                  2x12=24

(a) What is fossil?

(b) Write any two characteristics of hominids.

(c) What is Islamic calendar?

(d) Who composed the book Al-Qanun Fil Tibb (Canon of Medicine)? How many names of drugs did it contain?

(e) Name two famous monasteries established by St. Benedict.

(f) Write any two characteristics of feudal society of France.

(g) Write two duties of monks.

(h) Name two humanists of the medieval period.

(i) Write two functions of guilds.

(j) Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

(k) Name two important inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

(l) What is oral history?

(m) Name two colonies of England.

(n) Name two important literary sources of Japan.

(o) Name two staple foods of China.

3. Answer the following questions (any ten):                      4x10=40

(a) Write a brief note on the different ways of obtaining food by the early men.

(b) Write a short note on the sources of the Roman Empire.

(c) Write a note on Crusades.

(d) Write an essay on Geniza records.

(e) Write a short note on the controlling of workers in the Roman Empire.

(f) Make an estimate of the career of Genghis Khan.

(g) Write the difference between peasants and serfs.

(h) Give a brief overview of the Cathedral town.

(i) Write a brief note on the Renaissance in the 14^th Century Europe.

(j) Write a short note on the Aztecs.

(k) Why did the native people lose their land? Discuss.

(l) Give a brief idea about Australia.

(m) Write a note on Naito Konan.

4. Answer the following questions (any four):                6x4=24

(a) Discuss about the development of writing.

(b) Write a note on the early life of the Mongols.

(c) Discuss about the causes of downfall of Caliphates.

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

(e) What were the three orders of the French society? Write briefly on each of them.

(f) Discuss the rise of Communist Party in China.

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