MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2023 for History

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(c) The Akkad ruler, Sargon established a new
2023 capital for his kingdom in the city of
HISTORY (i) Agade
Full Marks : 100 (ii) Assur
Time : 3 hours (iii) Nippur.

General Instructions :
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script. (d) The script evolved by the Sumerians is known
as
(ii) Attempt Part –– A Objective Questions serially.
(iii) Attempt all parts of questions together at one place. (i) Persian script
(ii) Cuneiform script
( PART : A –– OBJECTIVE )
(iii) Roman script.
( Marks : 50 )

SECTION ––I (e) Contemporary histories of Roman Empire are
( Marks : 30 ) called

1. Choose the correct answer (any twenty) : (i) Annals
1  20  20
(a) The Hadza people are an ethnic group in (ii) Manuscripts
(i) South West Asia (iii) Chronicles
(ii) Central Tanzania
(iii) Central Asia
(f) The Roman Emperor who transformed the
entire character of the Roman state was
(b) The last Ice Age came to an end about
(i) Julius Caesar
(i) 10,000 years ago
(ii) Tiberius
(ii) 12,000 years ago
(iii) 13,000 years ago. (iii) Augustus Caesar.

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(3) (4)

(g) Khalifa literally means (k) The feudal structure was based on hierarchy
of rights regarding the
(i) King
(i) Land
(ii) Deputy or successor
(ii) Gold
(iii) Army Chief.
(iii) Silver.

(h) Who was known as the real builder of the Arab
Empire? (l) In the feudal society the hierarchical chain
consisted of
(i) Abu Bakr
(i) Lord and Vassal
(ii) Umar
(ii) Priest and Vassal
(iii) Usman
(iii) King and Priest.

(i) Who breached the “Great Wall of China”?
(m) Knowledge is gained by means of observation
(i) Qara Khan and experiment. This was defined by
(ii) Kublai Khan (i) Isaac Newton

(iii) Genghis Khan (ii) Francis Bacon

(iii) Niccolo Machiavelli.

(j) The code of law promulgated by Genghis Khan
was called
(n) The greatest work of Raphael is the portrait of
(i) Yam (i) ‘Madonna’
(ii) Yasa (ii) ‘Monalisa’
(iii) Ulus (iii) ‘Last Supper’

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(5) (6)

(o) The Arawaks were the inhabitants of a group (s) The first iron bridge of the world was built in
islands in the 1779 in
(i) Arabian Sea
(i) Manchester
(ii) Caribbean Sea
(ii) Birmingham
(iii) Dead Sea.
(iii) Coalbrookdale.

(p) The term which describes that colonies should
exist for the benefit of the mother country is
known as (t) The Miner’s Friend was invented in 1698 by

(i) Capitalism (i) James Watt

(ii) Colonialism (ii) Thomas Savery
(iii) Mercantalism. (iii) Thompson Newcomen

(q) Who said these words, “The old nations creep
(u) The members of British Parliament were
at a snail’s pace; but “the Republic thunders
opposed to
on at the speed of an express”.
(i) Andrew Jackson (i) Right to criticize the government

(ii) John Marshall (ii) Right to vote
(iii) Andrew Carnegie (iii) Right to form association.

(r) The Aborigines were given voting-rights in the
year (v) The warrior class in Japan were known as

(i) 1967 (i) Shogun

(ii) 1968 (ii) Daimyo
(iii) 1969 (iii) Samurai.

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(7) (8)

(w) The first nation in the world to enact some of (c) In Mesopotamia the temple was the nucleus
the strictest environmental controls around which the city developed.
(i) Japan (d) The denarius was a Greek silver coin.
(ii) China
(e) In the late Republican Period, the Roman Empire
(iii) England was flooded with cheap slave labour.

(f) Development of Jerusalem received a fresh
(x) At the end of 1965, Mao started a new movement stimulus when it became a religious centre for
called the Christians in 690s.

(i) Long March (g) The Mongols did not have a written script.
(ii) New Democracy
(h) A modified type of spade was introduced called
(iii) Cultural Revolution. Bipalium.

(i) The ideology which emphasized temporal
(y) Deng Xiaoping introduced a socialist market outlook rather than spiritual was called
economy with a strong party control and he humanism.
called it
(j) Leonardo built the St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.
(i) Four Modernizations
(k) The Aztec society depended on trade.
(ii) Five Modernizations
(l) The Passamaquoddy tribe is one of the native
(iii) Six Modernizations
American tribes that can be found in New
Brunswick, Canada.
2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or (m) Flying shuttle loom speeded up cloth-weaving.
‘Fa ls e’ (any ten). 1 x 10 = 10
(a) Fossils can be dated through direct chemical (n) According to Arnold Toynbee, the Industrial
analysis. Revolution was a sudden change.

(b) Increase in brain size occured between four and (o) Mao Zedong fled to Taiwan in 1949 and
five million years ago. established the Republic of China.

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(9) ( 10 )

SECTION – II (n) Who were the shoguns?

( Marks : 20 ) (o) What was Mao Zedong’s strategy of Revolution.

3. Answer any ten questions in 2 or 3 sentences.
( PART : B –– DESCRIPTIVE )
2 x 10 = 20
(a) Define Geology. ( Marks : 50 )

(b) What are Homo sapiens? Answer question No. 8 and any 3 from the rest.

(c) What are Mesopotamian seals?
1. What modes of communication did the early humans
(d) What is an Imperium? develop? 12

(e) Who was Abd-al-Malik? 2. Describe the roles played by temples in Mesopotamian
society. 12
(f) What is a Noria?

(g) What was the qubcur tax? 3. Explain the Economic Expansion in the Roman
Empire. 12
(h) Define the term ‘Serfs’.

(i) Write about the revival of Classical Learning. 4. Highlight the social, political and military organisation
of the Mongols that transformed them into an
(j) Who was Johannes Gutenberg? extremely effective force. 12

(k) Write about the Aztec Calendar stone. 5. Who was Christopher Columbus and how he managed
his voyage of discovery? 2 + 10 = 12
(l) What was the Trail of Tears?

(m) Mention any three inventions in the textile 6. Specify the features of the perceptions of the
industry which symbolised British Europeans and the natives of North America about
Industrialisation. each other. 12

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7. Define the term Industrial Revolution. Why did it
first start in England? 2 + 10 = 12

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

(a) Language and Literature in the Islamic Society.

(b) The Black Death.

(c) Humanism in Education.

(d) Mayan Civilization.

(e) Effects of the Industrial Revolution on women
and children.

(f) Peculiar features of Japanese Industry.

(g) Long March.

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