NCERT Solutions for Class 11 History Chapter 5 Changing Cultural Traditions

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Book : Themes in World History Ncert Solutions | Chapter - 7 Social Science History

Class : 11th

Subject : History

Chapter : 7

Chapter Name : Changing Cultural Traditions

Q1 Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries?

Answer. The elements of Greek and Roman Culture that revived in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries were : Art and architecture, laws, religions, science and technology, philosophy,
literature, etc.

Q2 Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.

Answer. Italian architecture : The ruins were carefully excavated by archaeologists. This
inspired a new style in architecture, which was actually a revival of the imperial Roman style
now called 'classical'. Artists and sculptors were also to decorate the buildings with paintings,
sculptures and reliefs.

Islamic architecture : Religious buildings were the symbols of Islamic architecture. Mosques,
tombs and shrines showed few basic designs like arches, domes, minarets and open
courtyards.

Q3 Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

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Answer. Italian towns first experienced the ideas of humanism because the earliest universities
in Europe had been set up in Italian towns from eleventh century. Law was an important subject.

The educational programme implied that there was much to be learnt which religious teaching
alone could not give. This was the culture which historians in the nineteenth century were to
label 'humanism'.

Q4 Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in temporary France.

Answer. Democratic government existed in Venice. People who crossed the age of 25 were
admitted to the institution of Venetian commonwealth. On the contrary, monarchy existed in
France and people were deprived of their rights.

Q5 What were the features of humanist thought?

Answer. The features of humanist thought were :

→ The term 'humanist' was used for masters who taught grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history and
moral philosophy.

→ These subjects were not drawn from or connected with religion, and emphasised skills
developed by Individuals through discussion and debate.

→ One of the basic features of humanist culture was a slackening of the control of religion over
human life.

→ Humanism also implied that individuals were capable of shaping their own lives through
means other than the mere pursuit of power and money.

→ This ideal was closely tied with the belief that human nature was many-sided, which went
against the three separate orders that feudal society believed in.

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Q6 Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth-century
European.

Answer. → The work of thinkers showed that knowledge, as distinct from belief, was based on
experiments and observations.

→ Once the scientists had shown the way, experiments and investigations, into what came to
be called as physics, chemistry and biology.

→ Historians were to label this new approach to the knowledge of man and nature the Scientific
Revolution.

→ God began to be replaced by Nature as the source of creation.

→ People who retained their faith in God started talking about a distant God who does not
directly regulate the act of living in the material world.

→ The revolution in Science reached its climax with Issac Newton's theory of gravitation.

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