Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History with Solutions Set 9 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History Set 9 with Solutions
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
- The Question paper is divided into five sections: Section A: MCQs 10 marks, Section B: Short Answer Type Questions 9 marks, Section C: Source based questions 15 marks, Section D: Long Answer Type Questions 32 marks, Section E: Map based 4 marks.
- All questions are compulsory.
- You may attempt any section at a time.
- All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
Section-A (20 Marks)
Question 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
(i) is a major Industry in Canada. [1]
(A) Timbering
(B) Fishing
(C) Agriculture
(D) Shipping
Answer:
(B) Fishing
(ii) The earliest cities developed in Mesopotamia around___________. [1]
(A) Temple
(B) Tank
(C) River
(D) Well
Answer:
(A) Temple
(iii) The study of remains of monuments, pottery is known as: [1]
(A) Archaeology
(B) Anthropology
(C) Ethnography
(D) Sociology
Answer:
(A) Archaeology
(iv) Amphorae in which wine, olive oil and liquids were transported were containers of_________. [1]
(A) Iron
(B) Clay
(C) Bronze
(D) Copper
Answer:
(B) Clay
(v) What is the meaning of Conquistadores? [1]
(A) Spanish conquerors
(B) Spanish soldiers
(C) Both Spanish conquerors and soldiers
(D) Both Spanish conquerors and soldiers who established the New World
Answer:
(D) Both Spanish conquerors and soldiers who established the New World
(vi) The empire of Rome became Republic in: [1]
(A) End of 4th century B.C
(B) End of 5th century B.C
(C) End of 6th century B.C
(D) End of 7th century B.C
Answer:
(C) End of 6th century B.C
(vii) Division of labour encouraged urbanisation as: [1]
(A) Various necessities are taken care of by the people engaged in same occupations
(B) All necessities are taken care of by the people
(C) Various necessities are taken care of by the people engaged in different occupations
(D) None of these
Answer:
(C) Various necessities are taken care of by the people engaged in different occupations
(viii) Who was responsible for the introduction of feudalism in England? [1]
(A) The French King William
(B) The Russian King William
(C) King Louis XVI
(D) Pope
Answer:
(A) The French King William
(ix) What was a compulsory course in Japan? [1]
(A) A course on morals
(B) A course on politics
(C) A course on social values
(D) A course on language
Answer:
(A) A course on morals
(x) Which of the following nation increased their trading activities after the 17th Century? [1]
(A) Germany
(B) Italy
(C) Holland
(D) Spain
Answer:
(C) Holland
Question 2.
Fill in the blanks
(i) The British growth was faster after ___________. [1]
Answer:
1815
(ii) Tablets with multiplication and division tables, square- and square-root tables, and tables of compound interest were found in__________.[1]
Answer:
1800 BCE
(iii) The People’s Republic of China Government was established in_____________. [1]
Answer:
1949
(iv) Sumerian was gradually replaced by Akkadian in _____________. [1]
Answer:
2400 BCE
(v) The most significant legacy of the ‘Mesopotamian’ civilisation to the world was the___________. [1]
Answer:
development of writing
Question 3.
State whether true or false
(i) Feudalism is derived from the Latin word ‘Feud’ which means a piece of land. [1]
Answer:
False
(ii) Japan was influenced by China. [1]
Answer:
False
(iii) CCP emerged victorious after the 1911 revolution. [1]
Answer:
True
(iv) The Europeans used alcohol to exploit the natives of North America. [1]
Answer:
True
(v) The Great Leap Forward Movement was launched in 1958. [1]
Answer:
True
Section – B (9 Marks)
Question 4.
What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world? [3]
Answer:
The new food items that the rest of the world became familiar with are potatoes, chillies, Tobacco, Sugar and Cocoa, cane-sugar and rubber. These crops were later taken by the Europeans to other countries like India.
Question 5.
What kind of trade relations did Mesopotamia have with Turkey and Iran and across the Gulf region? [3]
Answer:
Mesopotamia was rich in food resources but lacked stones for tools, seals and jewels. There was no metal even for tools. Wood, copper, tin, silver, gold, shell and various types of stones were available in Turkey, Iran and across the Gulf region. These regions, on the other hand, had enough mineral resources but less agricultural produce. Thus, Mesopotamians had flourishing trade relations with these regions. They regularly traded their abundant textiles and agricultural produce for wood, copper, tin and other minerals.
Question 6.
What questions have been raised regarding the concept of Renaissance? [3]
Answer:
Some scholars have raised questions regarding the concept of Renaissance. Writers like Peter Burke have suggested that Burckhardt have exaggerated the sharp difference between this period and the preceding period by using the term `Renaissance’. To contrast the Renaissance as a period of dynamism and artistic creativity and the middle ages as a period of gloom and lack of development would be an over simplification. It has been suggested that similar literary and artistic blooming occurred in 9th century France too.
Section – C (15 Marks)
Question 7.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [5]
The Republic was the name for a regime in which the reality of power lay with the Senate, a body dominated by a small group of wealthy families who formed the ‘nobility’. In practice, the Republic represented the government of the nobility, exercised through the body called the Senate. The Republic lasted from 509 BC to 27 BC, when it was overthrown by Octavian, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar, who later changed his name to Augustus. Membership of the Senate was for life and wealth and office-holding counted for more than birth.
(i) What is a Republic?
(ii) Republic lasted for how long and how did it come to an end.
(iii) What was the term for a Senate?
Answer:
(i) The Republic was the name for a regime in which the reality of power lay with the Senate, a body dominated by a small group of wealthy families who formed the ‘nobility’
(ii) The Republic lasted from 509 BC to 27 BC, when it was overthrown by Octavian, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar, who later changed his name to Augustus.
(iii) Membership of the Senate was for life.
Question 8.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [5]
In towns, instead of services, people paid tax to the lords who owned the land on which the town stood. Towns offered the prospect of paid work and freedom from the lord’s control, for young people from peasant families. ‘Town air makes free’ was a popular saying. Many serfs craving to be free ran away and hid in towns. If a serf could stay for one year and one day without his lord discovering him, he would become a free man. Many people in towns were free peasants or escaped serfs who provided unskilled labour. Shopkeepers and merchants were numerous. Later there was a need for individuals with specialised skills, like bankers and lawyers.
The bigger towns had populations of about 30,000. They could be said to have formed a ‘fourth’ order. The basis of economic organisation was the guild. Each craft or industry was organised into a guild, an association which controlled the quality of the product, its price and its sale. The ‘guild-hall’ was a feature of every town; it was a building for ceremonial functions, and where the heads of all the guilds met formally. Guards patrolled the town walls and musicians were called to play at feasts and in civic processions, and innkeepers looked after travellers.
(i) What was ‘guildhall’?
(ii) What was the population of the big towns?
(iii) Why were guilds important?
Answer:
(i) The ‘guild-hall’ was a feature of every town; it was a building for ceremonial functions, and where the heads of all the guilds met formally.
(ii) About 30,000.
(iii) The basis of economic organisation was the guild. Each craft or industry was organised into a guild, an association which controlled the quality of the product, its price and its sale.
Question 9.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. [5]
Description of the Sydney Area in 1790 ‘Aboriginal production had been dramatically disturbed by the British presence. The arrival of a thousand hungry ‘mouths, followed by hundreds more, put unprecedented pressure on local food resources. So what would the Daruk people have thought of all this? To them such large-scale destruction of sacred places and strange, violent behaviour towards their land was inexplicable. The newcomers seemed to knock down trees without any reason, for they were not making canoes, gathering bush honey or catching animals.
Stones were moved and stacked together, clay dug up, shaped and cooked, holes were made in the ground, large unwieldy structures built. At first, they may have equated the clearing with the creation of a sacred ceremonial ground. Perhaps they thought a huge ritual gathering was to be held, dangerous business from which they should steer well clear. There is no doubt the Daruks subsequently avoided the settlement, for the only way to bring them back, was by an official kidnapping.
(i) What was the only way to bring the Daruks back?
(ii) What values are reflected in this chapter?
(iii) What was the initial view of the natives?
Answer:
(i) Kidnapping.
(ii) Humanity, love for their land, compassion, devotion.
(iii) The natives might have associated the clearing with the creation of a sacred ceremonial ground. Perhaps they thought a huge ritual gathering was to be held, dangerous business from which they should steer well clear.
Section – D (32 Marks)
Question 10.
Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in the 19th century USA? [8]
Answer:
Other than the use of English, the other features of socio-economic life that are noticeable in the 19th century USA are:
(1) Big industries were set up in America.
(2) Extensive agriculture and mining were developed for clearing vast forested areas.
(3) Most of the early settlers in America were British – either convicts or younger sons who could not inherit their father’s property and were eager to own the land.
(4) The immigrants purchased land and set up big farms. They developed agriculture, and with the invention of the barbed wire in 1873, it was used to protect the farms from wild animals.
(5) Use of modern machines for agriculture and cultivation according to market needs with an aim to earn profits.
Question 11.
Explain how the geographical features influenced the Mesopotamian civilization. [8]
Answer:
Mesopotamia was a land of diverse environments. The southernmost part was known as Sumeria. The area lying between Sumeria and Northern Mesopotamia was called Akkad. From 2000 BCE, these together formed Babylonia which became the main centre of the Mesopotamian Empire. Its geographical location influenced the development of civilization in the following ways:
(1)In the north-east, the land gradually rises and forms tree-covered mountain ranges that were covered with streams and wild vegetation of flowers with enough rainfall to grow crops. Agriculture began here between 7000 BCE – 6000 BCE.
(2) Further north, the uplands, called the steppes, were well-suited for animal herding. Sheep and goats produced milk, wool and meat in abundance.
(3) To the east, the tributaries of Tigris provided routes of communication.
(4) In the west, the Syrian Desert merges with the Arabian Desert. In the south too, there is a desert, but it is here that the first cities and writings first emerged. This desert could support the cities as rivers Euphrates and Tigris that rose in the north carried loads of silt. When they were flooded, their water provided fertile silt for cultivation.
(5) Apart from the fertile silt the rivers also provided cheap modes of transportation for regular exchange and trade, so that the Euphrates emerged on the world route. Thus, Southern Mesopotamia that had no mineral resources could trade their abundant textiles and agricultural produce for wood, coffee, tin, silver, gold and various precious stones.
(6) As Mesopotamia was not protected by natural features, streams of people (herders and gatherers or harvest labourers) poured in and this intermingling of people provided its vitality to the Mesopotamian civilisation.
Question 12.
Give examples to show that the contradictions between the nomadic and sedentary elements within the Mongol empire had eased in the 13th century. State any three factors that led the Mongols’ sedentariness in the second half of the 12th and 13th centuries. [8]
Answer:
In the 1230s, the Mongols waged a successful war against the Chin dynasty in north China. At that time, some Mongols demanded that all peasants are killed and their lands are converted into pastures. However, by 1270 when Sung dynasty was defeated in South China, Qubilai Khan advised against the plundering of peasantry because that would affect the stability of the empire. Similarly, Ghazan Khan too warned his commanders against plundering the peasantry and asked them to distinguish between the obedient peasantry and the rebel peasantry. It is thus clear that the Mongols were adopting a sedentary way of life.
The factors that led to their sedentarisation are as follows:
(1) Influence of administrators recruited from conquered territories helped not only to integrate the conquered dominions but also helped blunt the harsher edges of nomadic predation on sedentary life.
(2) The pressure to settle became greater as the Mongol empire spanned larger areas distant from the original steppe habitat of the Nomads.
(3) By the mid 13th century, the sense of common patrimony shared by all the children of Genghis Khan was gradually replaced by separate lineage groups and territorial domains. The period was also marked by succession struggles for the office of the ‘Great Khan’ and prized pastoral lands.
(4) Though the Mongols dominated politically they were numerically in minority. By proclaiming the ‘Yasa’ as a sacred law, the Mongols sought to protect their ethnic identity as they absorbed different aspects of sedentary life
Question 13.
Discuss how the Republic of China was established. [8]
Answer:
Establishing the Republic:
Manchu dynasty was overthrown and a republic established in 1911 under Sun Yat-Sen. He studied medicine but was greatly concerned about the fate of China. Yat-Sen’s programme was called the Three Principles – These were nationalism – this meant overthrowing the Manchu who were seen as a foreign dynasty, as well as other foreign imperialists; democracy or establishing democratic government; and socialism regulating capital and equalizing landholdings.
Revolutionaries demanded driving out of the foreigners, to control natural resources, to remove inequalities and reduce poverty. Reforms were such as the use of simple language, abolish foot binding and female subordination, equality in marriage and economic development were advocated Sun Yat-sen’s ideas became the basis of the political philosophy of the Guomindang which were identified as the ‘four great needs – clothing food, housing and transportation.
After the death of Sun, Chiang Kaishek (1887-1975) emerged as the leader of the Guomindang. He launched a military campaign to control the ‘warlords’, regional leaders who had usurped authority and to eliminate the communists. He advocated a secular and rational ‘this worldly’ Confucianism. He encouraged women to cultivate the four virtues of ‘chastity, appearance, speech and work’ and recognise their role as confined to the household.
Section – E (4 Marks)
Question 14.
(i) On the given, locate the following. [4]
(1) Merv
(2) Balkh
(ii) Identify the two places marked on the map
Answer:
Places shown in the above map are:
A. Karakoram
B. Moscow