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How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
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Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries in the world.
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Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
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Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in nineteenth-century USA?
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What did the 'frontier' mean to Americans?
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Why was the history of the Australian native people left out of history books?
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How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.
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Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.
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What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?
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Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?
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How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
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What were Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles?
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Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialisation lead to wars with its neighbours and destruction of the environment?
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Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

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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?
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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.
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Which of the following do you think is best documented in the archaeological record: (a) gathering, (b) tool making, (c) the use of fire?
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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?
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Choose any two developments each from Timelines 1 and 2 at the end of the chapter and indicate why you think these are significant.
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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?
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