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Class 11 – History
Sample Paper – 01 (2024-25)

Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: : 3 hours

General Instructions:

  1. Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There are 34 questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory.
  2. Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
  3. Section B – Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 60-80 words.
  4. Section C – Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type Questions, carrying 8 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 300-350 words.
  5. Section D – Question no.31 to 33 are Source based questions with three sub questions and are of 4 marks each.
  6. Section-E – Question no. 34 is Map based, carrying 5 marks that includes the identification and location of significant test items. Attach the map with the answer book.
  7. There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions have to be attempted.
  8. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary.

Section A

  1. When was Meiji Constitution of 1889 replaced by a new constitution?
    a) 1905
    b) 1911
    c) 1943
    d) 1947
  2. Mesopotamia is in modem ________.
    a) Iran
    b) Syria
    c) Egypt
    d) Iraq
  3. ________ family was considered as the norm in Mesopotamian society.
    a) Nuclear
    b) Joint
    c) Compound
    d) All of these
  4. Identify the given image from the following options:

    a) Amphitheatre at Vindonissa
    b) Wine merchant’s dining room in Pompeii
    c) Pont du Gard, near Nimes, France
    d) Shops in Forum Julium, Rome
  5. Assertion (A): Next to the emperor and the Senate, the other key institution of imperial rule was the army and the army hated and feared the senate.
    Reason (R): Army was a source of often unpredictable violence, especially in the tense conditions of the third century when the government was forced to tax more heavily to pay for its mounting military expenditures.

    a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
    b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
    c) A is true but R is false.
    d) A is false but R is true.
  6. What was the period of Guyuk’s reign?
    a) 1246 to 1248
    b) 1247-1249
    c) 1246 to 1270
    d) 1236-1246
  7. Assertion (A): The name Mesopotamia is derived from the Greek words mesos and potamos.
    Reason (R): Mesopotamia is the land between three main rivers- Great Zab, Euphrates and the Tigris rivers.

    a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
    b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
    c) A is true but R is false.
    d) A is false but R is true.
  8. Identify an anthropologist with the help of following information
    • He composed a lecture on The Great Australian Silence.
    • He condemned historians for not making any records of aborigines.
    a) W.E.H. Stanner
    b) Henry Reynolds
    c) James Cook
    d) Judith wright
  9. Where did Feudalism take her roots?
    a) England
    b) France
    c) Germany
    d) Italy
  10. Consider the following statements and select the correct from the following option:
    1. Ur was a town whose ordinary houses were systematically excavated in the 1930s.
    2. Narrow winding streets in Ur indicate that wheeled carts could not have reached many of the houses.
    3. Narrow winding streets and the irregular shapes of house plots in Ur indicate a perfect town planning.
    a) i and iii
    b) ii and iii
    c) i, ii and iii
    d) i and ii
  11. Find out the correct chronological order from the following options:
    1. Brunelleschi designs the Duomo in Florence
    2. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales published
    3. University established in Florence
    4. Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine ruler of Constantinople
    a) iv, ii, i, iii
    b) i, ii, iii, iv
    c) iii, ii, i, iv
    d) ii, iii, iv, i
  12. When was treaty of Shimonoseki signed?
    a) 1897
    b) 1890
    c) 1893
    d) 1895
  13. Which among the following is Correctly matched?
    List IList II
    (A) Thomas More’sNinety-Five Theses
    (B) Martin LutherUtopia
    (C) Isaac NewtonPrincipia Mathematica
    (D) Andreas VesaliusThe Social Contract
    a) Option (D)
    b) Option (B)
    c) Option (C)
    d) Option (A)
  14. Who collected taille?
    a) The Priest
    b) The Nobles
    c) The Peasantry
    d) The King (Monarch)
  15. Edo is now called ________.
    a) Tokyo
    b) Singapore
    c) Hong-Kong
    d)Shanghai
  16. Roman Empire was seized by ________.
    a) Arabian
    b) Egyptian Empire
    c) Mesopotamians
    d) Sassadians
  17. Who defeated Sung ruler of southern China?
    a) Churk Buka
    b) Qubilai Khan
    c) Arik Buka
    d) Toluy
  18. Assertion (A): In the reign of Louis XIII of France, a meeting was held of the French consultative assembly. After this, it was not summoned again for nearly two centuries, till 1789.
    Reason (R): The first order i.e. clergy did not want to share power with the three orders.

    a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
    b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
    c) A is true but R is false.
    d) A is false but R is true.
  19. Which of these statement is false about Cicero?
    a) He was Roman essayist
    b) He was Roman laywer
    c) He was contemporary to Julius Ceasar
    d) He was a British officer
  20. Match the following and select the correct option
    List IList II
    1. 1603A. Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes the Edo shogunate
    2. 1868B. Korea annexed
    3. 1889C. Meiji Constitution enacted
    4. 1910D. Restoration of Meiji
    a) 1 – a, 2 – d, 3 – c, 4 – b
    b) 1 – b, 2 – c, 3 – d, 4 – a
    c) 1 – c, 2 – b, 3 – d, 4 – a
    d) 1 – d, 2 – a, 3 – b, 4 – c
  21. It laid the foundation for the prosperity of Australia:
    a) Agriculture
    b) Fishing Industry
    c) Mining Industry

    d) Construction industry

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Section B

  1. Discuss the main features of European feudalism.      OR Describe the merits and demerits of feudal system.
  2. What were the chief objectives of the Reformation Movement?
  3. Suppose the emperor Trajan had actually managed to conquer India and the Romans had held on to the country for several centuries. In what ways do you think India might be different today?
  4. Why did the Guomindang despite its attempts to unite China fail?
  5. Division of labour is one of the important features of urban life. Explain it with example.
  6. What was the significance of the southern region of the Mesopotamia?     OR How did Mesopotamians write?
  7. Section C
  8. Which favourable conditions encouraged Genghis Khan to launch an expedition against the Muhammad Shah of Khwarazm?ORWhat do you know about Ogodei? Write his achievements in brief.
  9. Discuss the causes of the decline of the Shoguns.     OR What arrangements were given in favour and against Japan’s opening to the outer world?
  10. Explain the role of Gold Rush in economic and political expansion of America.   OR Why did white Americans feel sympathy for the natives who simultaneously denied the benefits of citizenship?

Section D

  1. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow:
    Formal education was not the only way through which humanists shaped the mind of their age. Art, architecture and books were wonderfully effective in transmitting humanist ideas.
    Artists were inspired by studying works of the past. The material remains of Roman culture were sought with as much excitement as ancient text: a thousand years after the fall of Rome, fragments of art were discovered in the ruins of ancient Rome and other deserted cities. Their admiration for the figures of perfectly proportioned men and women sculpted so many centuries ago, made Italian sculptors want to continue that tradition. In 1416, Donatello (1386-1456) broke new ground with his life-like statues. Artists’ concern to be accurate was helped by the work of scientists.

    1. Besides education, in what other ways did the humanists shape the minds of their age? (1)
    2. Examine the sentence: Artists concern to be accurate was helped by the work of scientists. (1)
    3. What was the source of inspiration for the artists? (2)
  2. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow:
    Slavery was an institution deeply rooted in the ancient world, both in the Mediterranean and in the Near East, and not even Christianity when it emerged and triumphed as the state religion (in the fourth century) seriously challenged this institution. It does not follow that the bulk of the labour in the Roman economy was performed by slaves. That may have been true of large parts of Italy in the Republican period (under Augustus there were still 3 million slaves in a total Italian population of 7.5 million) but it was no longer true of the empire as a whole. Slaves were an investment, and at least one Roman agricultural writer advised landowners against using them in contexts where too many might be required (for example, for harvests) or where their health could be damaged (for example, by malaria). These considerations were not based on any sympathy for the slaves but on hard economic calculation. On the other hand, if the Roman upper classes were often brutal towards their slaves, ordinary people did sometimes show much more compassion. See what one historian says about a famous incident that occurred in the reign of Nero. As warfare became less widespread with the establishment of peace in the first century, the supply of slaves tended to decline and the users of slave labour thus had to turn either to slave breeding or to cheaper substitutes such as wage labour which was more easily dispensable. In fact, free labour was extensively used on public works at Rome precisely because an extensive use of slave labour would have been too expensive. Unlike hired workers, slaves had to be fed and maintained throughout the year, which increased the cost of holding this kind of labour. This is probably why slaves are not widely found in the agriculture of the later period, at least not in the eastern provinces. On the other hand, they and freedmen, that is, slaves who had been set free by their masters, were extensively used as business managers, where, obviously, they were not required in large numbers. Masters often gave their slaves or freedmen capital to run businesses on their behalf or even businesses of their own.

    1. Infer the reason for the decline in the supply of trade in the first century. (1)
    2. Prudent landowners gradually switched over to slave breeding or hiring paid laborers. What is slave breeding? (1)
    3. Why were the landowners advised against using slaves where too many of them were required? (2)
  3. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow:
    Because of the inadequacy which we often felt on feast days, for the narrowness of the place forced the women to run towards the altar upon the heads of the men with much anguish and noisy confusion, [we decided] to enlarge and amplify the noble church…
    We also caused to be painted, by the exquisite hands of many masters from different regions, a splendid variety of new windows… Because these windows are very valuable on account of their wonderful execution and the profuse expenditure of painted glass and also a goldsmith… who would receive their allowances, namely, coins from the altar and flour from the common storehouse of the brethren, and who would never neglect their duty, to look after these [works of art].
    -Abbot Suger (1081-1151) about the Abbey of St Denis, near Paris.

    1. Why was it decided to enlarge and amplify the noble Church? (1)
    2. With what names, the big churches were called? (1)
    3. Why were an official master craftsman and a goldsmith appointed in the big churches? (2)

Section E

    1. On the given map of Britain, locate and label the industrial areas with appropriate symbols:
      1. Glasgow
      2. Newcastle
      3. Nottingham
        OR
      4. Leicester
    2. On the given map, three places have been marked as A and B which are associated with human habitation in Australia in the early period. Identify any two of them and write their correct names on the lines marked near them.

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Class 11 – History
Sample Paper – 01 (2024-25)

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Section A

  1. (d) 1947
    Explanation:1947
  2. (d) Iraq
    Explanation:Iraq
  3. (a) Nuclear
    Explanation:Nuclear
  4. (b) Wine merchant’s dining room in Pompeii
    Explanation:Wine merchant’s dining room in Pompeii
  5. (d) A is false but R is true.
    Explanation:Next to the emperor and the Senate, the other key institution of imperial rule was the army and the Senate hated and feared the army, because it was a source of often unpredictable violence, especially in the tense conditions of the third century when the government was forced to tax more heavily to pay for its mounting military expenditures.
  6. (a) 1246 to 1248
    Explanation:1246 to 1248
  7. (c) A is true but R is false.
    Explanation:Mesopotamia is the land between the two rivers Euphrates and the Tigris rivers. The name Mesopotamia is derived from the Greek words mesos, meaning middle, and potamos, meaning river. Hence the land came to be known as Mesopotamia.
  8. (a) W.E.H. Stanner
    Explanation:W.E.H. Stanner
  9. (b) France
    Explanation:France
  10. (d) i and ii
    Explanation:Narrow winding streets and the irregular shapes of house plots in Ur indicate an absence of town planning.
  11. (c) iii, ii, i, iv
    Explanation:iii- 1349 University established in Florence
    ii- 390 Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales published
    i- 1436 Brunelleschi designs the Duomo in Florence
    iv- 1453 Ottoman Turks defeat the Byzantine ruler of Constantinople
  12. (d) 1895Explanation:1895
  13. (c) Option (C)Explanation:Isaac Newton – Principia Mathematica
  14. (d) The King (Monarch)
    Explanation:The King (Monarch)
  15. (a) Tokyo
    Explanation:Tokyo
  16. (a) Arabian
    Explanation:Arabian
  17. (b) Qubilai Khan
    Explanation:Qubilai Khan
  18. (c) A is true but R is false.
    Explanation:In the reign of the child-king Louis XIII of France, in 1614, a meeting was held of the French consultative assembly, known as the Estates-General (with three houses to represent the three estates/orders – clergy, nobility, and the rest). After this, it was not summoned again for nearly two centuries, till 1789, because the kings did not want to share power with the three orders.
  19. (d) He was a British officer
    Explanation:He was a British officer
  20. (a) 1 – a, 2 – d, 3 – c, 4 – b
    Explanation:1 – a, 2 – d, 3 – c, 4 – b
  21. (c) Mining Industry
    Explanation:Mining Industry

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Section B

  1. Feudalism refers to a kind of agricultural production that is based on the relationship between lords and peasants. The king divided his estates among lords. The lords distributed this land amongst feudal lords. The feudal lord was loyal to his master and gave him military aid and gifts. The feudal lord was given formal rights by his master. In the peasantry feudal hierarchy, peasants were the lowest class. They were of two kinds: free peasants and serfs. The peasants worked as bonded labourers on the piece of land obtained from his master. Thus, there was decentralisation of authority in feudalism. But the king lost any contact with the common man.   OR          Merits of the feudal system:
    (i) Common people were provided security of life and property.
    (ii) Law and order was maintained in their territories.
    Demerits of the feudal system:
    (i) There were mutual conflicts among feudal lords to expand their own states. That is why peace and order in the society got disturbed.
    (ii) The feudal system proved to be an obstacle in the growth of political unity.
  2. The chief objectives of the Reformation Movement were as follows:
    1. To check religious absolutism and limitless rights of the Pope and other religious leaders.
    2. To improve the moral life of the Pope and other religious leaders.
    3. To remove corruption spread in the Church and divert the attention of religious leaders to spirituality.
    4. To emphasise the establishment of a national church.
    5. To make common people dependent on God than the Pope, for the attainment of salvation.
    6. To give religious freedom to every man. In spite of all these objectives, it can be said that this movement was basically launched to abolish the ancient conservatism of Europe.
  3. If Roman Emperor Trajan had actually managed to conquer India, India would be different today in the following aspects:
    1. Change in art, architecture, literature, and the law was evident even in the case of Indo-Greek.
    2. Conversion and Christianization.
    3. Concept of public baths and entertainment.
    4. Indian agriculture would have benefitted from the roman diversified application of water.
    5. The hitherto caste and class differences would have been further stratified.
    6. The pattern of Indian trade would probably have undergrown vast changes.
    1. Its social base was narrow and its political vision was limited.
    2. Regulation of Capital and equalisation of land as included in Sun Yat-sen’s programme could not be carried out.
    3. Peasantry and the rising social inequalities were ignored by the party.
    4. It wanted to impose military order instead of addressing the problems faced by the people.
  4. The meaning of division of labour is to fulfil our needs with each other’s products and services. The division of labour is very much necessary for urban life. The reason is that besides food production, trade, manufactures and several types of services also play an important role in urban economies. But city people are not self-sufficient. They depend on the products and services of another city of village people. There is continuous interaction between urban people and village people.
    For example, the carver of a stone seal needs bronze tools which he himself cannot make. He does not even know from where to get coloured stones for the seals. He is specialised in carving, not trading. The bronze toolmaker will definitely go out himself to get the metals-tin and copper. All these functions are performed with each other’s help.
  5. The southern region of Mesopotamia is a desert. Here the rivers the Euphrates and Tigris flow. These rivers rise in the northern mountains and carry loads of silt (fine mud) with them. When these rivers are flooded, the water is let out onto the fields and fertile silt is deposited.
    Euphrates river is divided into many small channels when it enters the desert. Sometimes these channels are also flooded. In the past, these channels were functioning as irrigation canals. The fields of barley, wheat, peas or lentils were irrigated when required. That is why even in case of less rainfall to grow crops, the agriculture of southern Mesopotamia was the most productive out of all the ancient systems.      OR               People of Mesopotamia wrote on clay tablets to keep records of transactions. Ascribe would well play and pat it into a size which he could comfortably hold in one hand. Then he would carefully smoothen its surfaces. While it was still moist, he would press wedge-shaped signs on the smoothened surface with a sharp end of a reed cut obliquely. The clay would harden once it dried in the sun and tablets would be almost like pottery that cannot be destroyed. When a written record of, say, the delivery of pieces of metal had ceased to be relevant, the tablet was thrown away.

Section C

  1. Following favourable conditions encouraged, Genghis Khan to launch an expedition against the Shah of Khwarazm:
    (i) Shah had established a vast empire, but nothing had been done to consolidate it.
    (ii) Shah also refused to recognise the Khalifa of Baghdad. This mistake resulted in the hostility of Muslim community against him.
    (iii) By annexation of a number of regions to his vast empire, Shah antagonised a large number of people.
    (iv) The mutual relations between Turkish and Iranian officers were not cordial. They never missed a chance to let down each other.
    (v) He had also imposed many taxes on the farmers and general public but did care a little about their grievances. So, the people wanted to get rid of such tyrannical regime.
    (vi) There was also a fear of loot and plunders. So, there was restlessness among the traders as well as the common people.
    (vii) There was lack of discipline in his army.
    (viii) The continued intrigues of his mother further eroded his position. She wanted him to overthrow.      OR            Ogodei was declared as the new Mongol Khan by Quriltai in 1229. He ruled from 1229 to 1241. After becoming the new Mongol Khan, he paid his attention towards Mughal empire. At the time of accession to power the position of Mongols in the Northern China was not much stable. In order to establish his control over Northern China, he entered into an alliance with the Sung ruler of Southern China.
    • In 1234, he occupied regions of Northerp China.
    • In 1231, he had also inflicted a crushing defeat to the ruler of Iran Jalal-ud-din, who had escaped to India, during the time of Genghis Khan.
    • Ogedei not only helped the Mongol empire to expand, rather than he also played an important role in consolidating it with an objective of strengthening the economic condition. He also regularised taxes and encouraged trade.
    • He established a chain of courts in empire to give justice to all his citizens.
    • To encourage education he also opened schools.
    • He also did a number of civil reforms and further expanded the Yam system.
  2. Causes of the decline of the Shoguns were the following:
    (i) Shoguns followed the policy of favouritism.
    (ii) Only the members of the Tokugawa family were appointed to the post which spread the feelings of ill-will among other feudal lords, who resolved to bring an end to the Shogun’s rule.
    (iii) Japan’s economy received a severe blow due to the wrong economic policies of the Shoguns.
    (iv) The condition of the peasant was very miserable during their rule. Taxes were collected forcibly.
    (v) A new class of merchant came into prominence. Feudal fraternity grew jealous of them. To put an end to their humiliation, the merchants wanted to do away with Shogun rule.    OR       Officials and the people of Japan knew that some of the European countries were establishing their colonial empires in India and in many other places. News of Chinese defeat from the British was spreading and were even depicted in plays. It created a fear in people that Japan might be made a colony if it came in contact with the outer world. Still, many scholars and leaders of the country wanted that European ideas and technologies must be learnt. But some other scholars wanted to exclude the Europeans. Some people wanted that there must be a limited and gradual opening of the country to the outer world. Therefore, the Japanese government launched a policy with the slogan of ‘Fukoku Kyohei’ which means rich country, strong army. They came to know that they are required to develop their economy and build a strong army, otherwise, they would be enslaved like India. For this purpose, the creation of a sense of nationhood among the people and the transformation of subject into citizens were needed.
  3. The role of ‘Gold Rush’ in the economic and political expansion of America can be explained as follows:
    1. Building of Railway Lines: The Gold Rush contributed to the building of railway lines across the continent of North America. Thousands of Chinese workers were employed for the construction of the railways. By 1870 CE, the USA’s railway network was completed. Canada’s railway was completed by 1885 CE.
    2. Growth of Industries: Gold Rush led to the growth of industries in North America. Here industries developed for two reasons. Firstly, to manufacture railway equipment so that the distant places would be linked with rapid transport. Secondly, to produce machinery to make large-scale farming easier. Both in the USA and Canada, factories multiplied and industrial towns grew. USA’s economy was an undeveloped economy in 1860 CE but in 1890 CE it was one of the leading industrial power in the world.
    3. Expansion of Agriculture: Large areas of forests were cleared and divided into farms. The bison had almost been exterminated by 1890 CE, thus ending the life of hunting the natives.
    4.  Political Expansion: In 1892, the USA’s continental expansion was complete. The area between the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean was divided up into states. There no longer remained the ‘frontier’ that had pulled European settlers west for many decades. Within a few years, the USA was setting up its own colonies in Hawaii and the Phillippines. It had become an imperial power.

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    1. White Americans felt sympathy for the natives who were being discouraged from the full exercise of their cultures and simultaneously denied the benefits of citizenship. This led to a landmark law in the USA, the Indian Reorganisation Act of 1934, which give natives in reservations the right to buy land and take loans.
    2. In the 1950s and 1960s, the US and Canadian governments thought of ending all special provisions for the natives in the hope that they would join the mainstream, that is, adopt European culture. But the natives did not want this. In 1954, in the Declaration of Indian Rights’ prepared by them, a number of native peoples accepted citizenship of the USA but on condition that their reservations would not be taken away and their traditions would not be interfaced with.
    3. A similar development occurred in Canada. In 1969 the government announced that they would ‘not recognise aboriginal rights’. The natives, in a well-organised opposition move, held a series of demonstrations and debates. The question could not be resolved till 1982 when the Constitution Act accepted the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the natives. Many details remain to be worked out.
    4. Today, it is clear that the native peoples of both countries, though reduced so much in numbers from what they had been in the eighteenth century, have been able to assert their right to their own cultures and, particularly in Canada, to their sacred lands, in a way their ancestors could not have done in the 1880s.

Section D

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  1. Formal education was not the only way through which humanists shaped the minds of their age. Art, architecture and books were wonderfully effective in transmitting humanist ideas.
  2. To study bone structures, artists went to the laboratories of medical schools. The dissection of the human body (by Andreas Vesalius) marked the beginning of modern physiology which helped the artists to study bone structures.
  3. Artists were inspired by studying works of the past. The material remains of Roman culture were sought with as much excitement as ancient texts, and fragments of art were discovered in the ruins of ancient Rome and other deserted cities.
  1. As warfare became less widespread with the establishment of peace in the first century, the supply of slaves tended to decline.
  2. Slave breeding is the practice of encouraging female slaves and their partners to have more children.
  3. Slaves were an investment, and at least one Roman agricultural writer advised landowners against using them in contexts where too many might be required (for example, for harvests) or where their health could be damaged (for example, by malaria). These considerations were not based on any sympathy for the slaves but on hard economic calculation.
      1. Because of the narrowness of the place during the feast days.
      2. Due to much anguish and noisy confusion.
    2. Big churches were called cathedrals.
    3. Windows in big Churches were quite valuable on account of their wonderful execution and the profuse expenditure of painted glass and sapphire glass, an official master craftsman, and a goldsmith was appointed.

Section E

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      2. Perth

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  3. I believe there is a wrong answer here. In the first chapter (Writing and City Life) it is clearly mentioned that there was an absence of town planning in Uruk. However, question 26 states the complete opposite. Please look into this.

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