Science (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

What was the function of medieval monasteries?

Imagine and describe a day in the life of a craftsman in a medieval French town.

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

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

Compare the details of Italian architecture of the period with Islamic architecture.

Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.

What were the features of humanist thought?

Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth-century Europeans.

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the fifteenth century to venture across Atlantic.

What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.

How did the 'discovery' of South America lead to the development of European colonialism?

How did Britain's involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?

What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

What were the interesting features of the 'inventions' of this period?

Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialisation.

How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?

Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries in the world.

Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.