SHIKSHA BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL
Holiday Homework-2014
Class XI
Subject History
1. Iraq is a land of geographical densities. Explain with examples.
2. What was the significance of the southe4n region of the Mesopotamia?
3. Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production
that was the cases of early urbanization?
4. Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to labour life?
5. What is the importance of division of labor in urban life?
6. Why must there be a social organization in urban economy?
7. What is the role of efficient transport in urban economy Give example of
Mesopotamia?
8. How did the art of rating develop in Mesopotamia?
9. Which changes came in Mesopotamian writing and language form 2600 BCF to the
first century CE?
10.What were the reasons of conflicts between animal herders to farmers of Mari?
11.What do ancient stories tell us about the civilization of Mesopotamia average?
12.How did earliest cities of southern Mesopotamia average? Throw light on the
Construction and increasing importance of the temples built in those cities?
13.How did Kingship average in Mesopotamia? What did the king do to increase his
influence and control?
14.What do you know about the following in Mesopotamia?
a. Position of upper class
b. Nature of family.
c. Marriage system.
15.Describe the main characteristics of the city of Ur.
16.On what grounds it is said that the development of human took place in
evolutionary manner?
17.What is meant by Primates? What are their main features?
18.From whom hominids evolve? Write difference between the both?
19.What were the advantages of bipedalism to early human; where do indirect &
direct evidences of bipedalism come from?
20.On what grounds it is said that the development of humans took place in an
evolutionary manner?
21.From whom Haminids evolve? Write differences between the both?
22.When the phase of glaciates or an Ice Age came into being? How and which changes
it brought in the process of human evolution?
23.What are the physical differences between austral piteous and homo? What do
these differences indicate?
24.Give brief discipline of replacement model of human evolution?
25.Briefly describe the chances which came in being style of human around 35,000
years ago and after that?
26.How language was developed?
27.When did spoken language average?
28.In which comes of France and spain paintings of animals have been discovered?
Why these paintings were done?
29.What do you know about Hadza group of people?
30.Where modern human beings originated? Give brief description of theories related
to it?
31. How would early humans have obtained food?
32.Could the information about present hunter and gathering societies be used to
understand past societies?
33.Describe the major sources of Roman history?
34.The Roman Empire was culturally much more diverse than how that of Iran. Explain?
35.What is meant by the ‘Principle’ in content of the Roman Empire? What was
Piston of the emperor and the Senate in it?
36.What was the policy of the Roman emperors towards more expansion of the empire
in the first two centuries?
37.What was the significance of provincial & local rule of the easy Roman Empire?
38.Who were the three main players in the political history of the Roman Empire?
Write two or three sentences about each of them?
39.What was the role of slaves and hired labour in Roman economy?
40.Describe the methods of the management of labour in the Roman Empire?