MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2022 for History

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(c) The first known language of the land
2022
(Mesopotamia) was
HISTORY
(i) Akkadian
Full Marks : 100
(ii) Sumerian
Time : 3 hours
(iii) Assyrian.
General Instructions :
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(d) The Gilgamesh Epic was written on
(ii) Attempt Part –– A Objective Questions serially.
(iii) Attempt all parts of questions together at one place. (i) Twelfth tablets

(ii) Thirteen tablets
( PART : A –– OBJECTIVE )
(iii) Fourteen tablets.
( Marks : 50 )

SECTION ––I
(e) The Romans succeeded the Greeks as a major
( Marks : 30 )
(i) Asian power
1. Choose the correct answer (any twenty) : 1 x20 = 20
(ii) African power
(a) The beginning of stone tool manufacture has
been found at (iii) European power.
(i) Olduvai
(ii) Asia
(iii) Africa. (f) Late antiquity means

(i) Final victory
(b) Pastoralism began around
(i) 8,000 years ago (ii) Final fascinating period
(ii) 10,000 years ago (iii) Final destruction.
(iii) 12,000 years ago.

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(3) (4)

(g) The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Madina (k) Free peasant had to pay a direct tax called :
is called
(i) Labour-rent
(i) Hijrat
(ii) Tithes
(ii) Hijri
(iii) Taille
(iii) Hijra.

(l) The Arab physician and philosopher of Bukhara
(h) The process of transforming the Caliphate into was :
a Monarchy was started by
(i) Ibn Sina
(i) Abu Bakr
(ii) Al Razi
(ii) Muawiyah
(iii) Ibn Rushd.
(iii) Umar.

(m) The ‘Last Judgement’ was painted by :
(i) The original Mongols lived North of the
(i) Giotto
(i) Sahara desert
(ii) Michelangelo
(ii) Gobi desert
(iii) Leonardo-da-Vinci.
(iii) Thar desert.

(n) The society which had no king, no army, no
(j) The area under direct administration of the Lord
church in South America was of the :
is called
(i) Aztecs
(i) Tenement

(ii) Demesne (ii) Arawaks

(iii) Feudum. (iii) Tupinamba.

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(5) (6)

(o) The Inca nation was a confederation of : (s) Sewing machine was invented by :
(i) Villages (i) Alias Hobbe
(ii) Tribes (ii) Edmund Cartwright
(iii) States. (iii) Samuel Crompton.

(p) The oldest artefact found in America is about
(t) Canals were initially built to transport coal to:
(i) 12,000 years
(i) Village
(ii) 11,000 years
(ii) Towns
(iii) 8,000 years. (iii) Cities

(q) The name ‘Indian’ was first applied to the natives
(u) The French engineer who constructed the Suez
of America by :
Canal in 1869 was :
(i) Christopher Columbus (i) Clermont
(ii) Captain Cook (ii) James Brindley
(iii) Tasman. (iii) Ferdinand-de-Lassepes.

(r) Captain Cook who discovered Australia was
(v) Japan is a land of
from:
(i) Hills
(i) Spain
(ii) Mountains
(ii) France
(iii) Islands
(iii) England.

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(7) (8)

(w) Japan developed the silk industry in: (c) Babylon was an important political centre of
Northern Mesopotamia.
(i) Nishijin

(ii) Edo (d) Rome was a slave society.

(iii) Tokyo. (e) The prosperity of the early Abbasid period was
reflected in the scientific and cultural
achievements.
(x) The Opium War undermind the ruling: :
(i) Qing dynasty (f) The term barbarian is derived from the Greek
word ‘barbaros’ which means a non-Romans.
(ii) Manchu dynasty

(iii) Han dynasty. (g) Genghis Khan introduced a rapid courier
system known as yasa.

(y) The Manchu Monarchy of China was overthrown
(h) The European society comprised mainly of three
by the Republic under the leadership of:
social categories, the christian priests, landed
(i) Mao Zedong aristocracy and peasants, called the ‘three
orders.
(ii) Chiang Kai-Shek
(i) Copernicus invented the Law of Pendulum.
(iii) Sun-Yat-Sen.

(j) The Arawaks were a war-like people.
2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or
‘False’ (any ten). 1x10=10 (k) Human sacrifice was an important part of Aztec
religion.
(a) The Origin of Species was written by Charles
Darwin in 1871.
(l) After 1861-65, civil war, the nothern states won
(b) The bipedalism began around 7 million years and slavery was abolished.
ago.

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(9) ( 10 )

(m) Luddism was a movement which favoured the (g) What was the Tithe tax in medieval Europe?
introduction of machinery.
(h) What is Humanism?
(n) Japan was the first country to introduce
compulsory education.
(i) Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

(o) China was proclaimed a Republic in 1920.
(j) Who discovered America and when?

(k) What were the Chinampas of the Aztecs society?
SECTION – II

( Marks : 20 ) (l) Who were the Aborigines of Australia?

(m) What was the position of women during the
3. Answer any ten questions in 2 or 3 sentences. 2x10=20 Industrial Revolution?

(a) What are Primates? (n) What was the Peterloo massacre?

(b) Who were the Hadza people? (o) What is known as Meiji Restoration?

(c) What was the first language and the later
language of Mesopotamia? ( PART : B ––DESCRIPTIVE )

(d) What do you mean by ‘Pax Romana’? ( Marks : 50 )

(e) What were the two types of land tax under Answer question No. 8 and any 3 from the rest.
Abbasids?
1. Who was Charles Darwin? What are the sources of
(f) What does the Great Wall of China testify? information regarding the history of evolution of
Humans on earth? 4 + 8 = 12

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2. Describe the development of writing of Mesopotamia? 12

3. Explain the role of Augustus Caesar in the rise of
the Roman Empire. 12

4. Discuss the scientific and cultural achievement of
Abbasid dynasty? 12

5. What is Feudalism? Describe the salient features of
feudalism in Western Europe. 2 + 10 = 12

6. Examine the salient features of the Renaissance
period with special reference to arts and
architecture? 12

7. Discuss the role of Mao Zedong and communist party
of China in the modernization of China. 12

8. Write short notes on any two of the following : 7 x 2 =14

(a) Causes of success of Genghis Khan
(b) Manors and Knights
(c) Renaissance
(d) Martin Luther
(e) New Education system of Japan
(f) Inca civilization
(g) The Native Americans.

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