Arts (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for History

If you had lived in the Roman Empire, where would you rather have lived – in the towns or in the countryside? Explain why.

Compile a list of some of the towns, cities, rivers, seas and provinces mentioned in this chapter, and then try and find them on the maps. Can you say something about any three of the items in the list you have compiled?

Imagine that you are a Roman housewife preparing a shopping list for household requirements. What would you add on the list?

Why do you think the Roman government stopped coining in silver? And which metal did it begin to use for the production of coinage?

Suppose the emperor Trajan had actually managed to conquer India and the Romans had held on to the country for several centuries. In what ways do you think India might be different today?

Go through the chapter carefully and pick out some basic features of Roman society and economy which you think make it look quite modern.

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol tribes into new social and military groupings?

How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan?

'If history relies upon written records produced by city-based literati, nomadic societies will always receive a hostile representation.' Would you agree with this statement? Does it explain the reason why Persian chronicles produced such inflated figures of casualties resulting from Mongol campaigns?

Keeping the nomadic element of the Mongol and Bedouin societies in mind, how, in your opinion, did their respective historical experiences differ? What explanations would you suggest account for these difference?

How does the following account enlarge upon the character of the Pax Mongolica created by the Mongols by the middle of the thirteenth century'?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

How did long term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe?

Why did knights become a distinct group, and when did they decline?

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.