CBSE Board Class 11 History Previous Year Question Papers 2009

Previous Paper-2009
Subject History
Class XI
Time : 3 Hrs            M.M. 100
General Instructions:
i) Answer all the questions. Marks are indicated against each question.
ii) Answer to questions carrying 2 marks should not exceed 30 words each.
iii) Answer to questions carrying 5 marks should not exceed 100 words each.
iv) Answer to questions carrying 8 marks should not exceed 250 words each.
v) Part D has questions based on sources.
vi) Attach the map with the answer script.

PART-A
Answer all the questions: 

1.What do you mean by Noyan?                                               

2.What do you understand by Transhumance?    

3.What is the meaning of Mesopotamia?     

4.What  are fossils?         

5.Mention on characteristics of each of the French Serf and Roman Slave. 
   
PART-B 
Section-I
Answer any two questions:-

6.Discuss the arguments advanced in favour of the regional continuity model of
Human Origin. Do you think it provides a convincing explanation of the
archaeological evidence?         

7.Why would the early temples in Mesoptamia have been much like a house?
                    
8.Of the new institutions that came into being once  city life had begun, which
would have depend on the initiative of the king?      

Section-II
Answer any three:

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

10.What are the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?     

11.Why did Genghis Khan feel the need of fragment the mongol tribes into new
social and military groupings?                                 

12.When did prophet Muhammad declare himself to be the messenger of God?
Explain the methods of Ibadat of Allah.                             

Section- III
Answer any three questions:

13.Describe the functions of medieval monasteries.           

14.Why did Knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?  

15.What were the features of humanist thought?                               

16.What were the new developments helping European navigation in the fifteen
centuries?                 

PART-C
 
Answer any three questions:

17.How were the Islamic architectural forms different  from those of the Roman
Empire?                 

18.What is the place of Genghis Khan and Mongols in the world history?  
                  
19.Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.                                                           

20.On the basis of your study pick out some basic feat ures of Roman Society and
Economy which you think make it look quite modern.   8

PART-D
Questions based on sources:-

21.A. ‘Homo’ is a latin word, meaning ‘Man’, although  there were women as well.
Scientists distinguish amongst several types of  Homo? The name assigned to
these species are derived from what are regarded as their typical
characteristics. So fossils are classified as Homo  habil’s, Home erectus and
Homo Sapiens.
a) Give the meaning of ‘Homo’.             
b) What do you mean by Species ?            
c) Mention the characteristics of Homo habil’s. Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. 

B. The term feltdalism has been used by historians to describe the economic, legal,
political and social relationships that existed in  Europe in the medieval era.
Derived from the German word ‘Feud’, which means ‘ a piece of  land’ it reefers
to the kind of society that developed in medieval France, and latu in England 
and in southern Italy.
a) What do you mean by feudal system?            
b) Comment on manor system.       
c) Write one demerit of the feudal system.     

PART –E 
22.On the map of Asia show Mongal Empire and mark and name any four places
associated with this.            
OR
On the map of Asia mark and name any five places associated with the mongal
campaigns.