MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 for History

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(c) The Homo sapiens originated in
2019
(i) Asia
HISTORY
(ii) Europe
Full Marks : 100
(iii) Africa
Time : 3 hours

General Instructions :
(d) Babylon emerged as an important city after
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(i) 3000 B.C.E.
(ii) Attempt Part –– A Objective Questions serially.
(ii) 2000 B.C.E.
(iii) Attempt all parts of questions together at one place.
(iii) 1500 B.C.E.
( PART : A –– OBJECTIVE )

( Marks : 50 )
(e) The word ‘Zaqaru’ means
SECTION ––I (i) rebuilt

1. Choose the correct answer (any twenty) : 1x 20=20 (ii) reconstruction

(a) The modern humans originated about (iii) to build high
(i) 1,60,000 years ago
(ii) 1,70,000 years ago
(f) Which city emerged as the centre of unified
(iii) 1,80,000 years ago
Sumeria?

(b) Bipedalism began around (i) Nineveh
(i) 7 million years ago (ii) Nippur
(ii) 8 million years ago
(iii) Assur
(iii) 9 million years ago

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(3) (4)

(g) The ancient form of modern paper was called (k) The code of law promulgated by the Mongols
was
(i) strip
(i) baj
(ii) paper
(iii) papyri (ii) yasa

(iii) yam

(h) The Roman administration was

(i) urban-centric (l) The feudal lord gave the knights a piece of

(ii) semi-urban centric (i) land

(iii) rural-centric (ii) gold

(iii) paper

(i) ‘Dome of the Rock’–Al–Aqsa Mosque was built
in
(m) The first order in the feudal society were the
(i) Jerusalem
(i) clergy
(ii) Cairo
(ii) knights
(iii) Baghdad
(iii) guilds

(j) A new tradition of Arab medicine that
flourished, was called (n) The ideology which emphasized temporal
outlook rather than spiritual was called
(i) Unani
(i) temperamental change
(ii) Siddha
(ii) liberalism
(iii) Ayurveda
(iii) humanism

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(5) (6)

(o) The Europeans had learnt paper making from (s) The U.S. President known for a champion of
the economic and social justice was
(i) Arabs (i) Andrew Jackson
(ii) Mongols (ii) John Marshall
(iii) Chinese
(iii) John F. Kennedy

(p) ‘Hammock’ was one of the specialities that
attracted the (t) The population of England and Wales doubled
during the period.
(i) Asians
(i) 1751–1821
(ii) Europeans
(ii) 1752–1822
(iii) Africans
(iii) 1753–1823

(q) The Inca and his family were called
(u) The Industrial Revolution was first started in
(i) Children of the moon
(i) America
(ii) Children of the stars (ii) Britain
(iii) Children of the sun (iii) France

(r) Who plundered the gold of the Incas with the
(v) The ‘novenas’ of England were
help of 180 men?
(i) priest and kings
(i) Hernando
(ii) merchants and businessmen
(ii) Pedro Alvares Cabral
(iii) workers and slaves
(iii) Francisco Pizarro

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(7) (8)

(w) Who invented the ‘Spinning Jenny’ ? (b) Upper Palaeolithic art was first discovered in
the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
(i) John Kay

(ii) Samuel Crompton (c) Sumeria was deficient in supplies of wood and
stone.
(iii) James Hargreaves
(d) Literacy in Mesopotamia was widespread.

(x) Under the rule of the Shoguns, Japan was (e) Caesar eventually became a title of all Roman
divided into more than Emperors.
(i) 240 domains
(f) Constantine established a second capital at
(ii) 250 domains Byzacium.
(iii) 260 domains
(g) The central part of Western Arabia where Islam
was born is called Hijaz.
(y) At the end of 1965, Mao started a new movement
in China called the (h) The fourth and fifth centuries were periods of
urban expansion in the Islamic World
(i) Long March
(i) Genghis Khan did not know how to read or
(ii) New Democracy
write.
(iii) Cultural Revolution
(j) Feudalism is a system of administration.

2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or (k) Martin Luther was a French monk.
‘False’ (any ten). 1x10=10
(l) Michelangelo was the most famous architect of
(a) Language is the key to understand the Homo
the sixteenth century.
sapiens.

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(9) ( 10 )

(m) The Mayan script employed 500 characters. (h) What were the Calmecac?

(n) The Inca nation was a confederation of tribes. (i) Define ‘Gold Rush’.

(o) The ‘daimyos’ exercised real state power from (j) What do you mean by Industrial Revolution?
the 12th century.

(k) Mention two negative effects of the Industrial
Revolution.
SECTION – II

( Marks : 20 ) (l) Who were the Daimyos?

(m) Who was Commodore Perry?
3. Answer any ten questions in 2 or 3 sentences. 2x10=20
(n) Who was Sun-Yet Sen?
(a) What are fossils?
(o) What was Deng Xiaoping’s ‘Four Modernizations’?
(b) What are the pre-requisites of tool making?

(c) What is the Cuneiform script? ( PART : B ––DESCRIPTIVE )

( Marks : 50 )
(d) What are Ziggurats?

Answer question No. 8 and any 3 from the rest.
(e) Define ‘Late Antiquity’.

(f) State the peculiar features of the Roman 1. Specify the brief stages of human evolution. 12
monarchy.
2. Write an essay on the status of urbanization and
(g) Who were the Mongols? commerce during the Abbasid rule. 6 + 6 = 12

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3. How did Genghis Khan bring about unity between
various groups of the Steppe people? 12

4. What were the ‘three orders’? Describe the role of
the clergy in the feudal society. 2 + 10 = 12

5. Give an account of the Inca civilization. 12

6. Specify the main stages of change in the lives of the
natives of America and Australia from the 17 th
century. 12

7. Examine the major factors that existed before the
Meiji Restoration, which facilitated Japan to
modernise rapidly. 12

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

(a) The Hadza people
(b) Legacy of Writing
(c) Crusades
(d) Copernicus
(e) Tupinamba society
(f) Luddism
(g) Opium War.

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