CBSE Class 11 History Syllabus 2019-20

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Introduction to World History

Section I: Early Societies

Introduction

1. From the Beginning of Time

Focus: Africa, Europe till 15000 BCE

a. Views on the origin of human beings b.  Early societies

c. Historians’ views on present-day gathering- hunting societies

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2.  Writing and City Life

Focus: Iraq, 3rdmillennium BCE

a. Growth of towns

b. Nature of early urban societies

c. Historians’ Debate on uses of writing

Section II: Empires Introduction

3.  An Empire across Three Continents

Focus: Roman Empire, 27 BCE to 600 CE.

a. Political evolution

b. Economic expansion

c. Religion-culture foundation d.  Late Antiquity

e. Historians’ views on the institution of Slavery

4.  Central Islamic Lands Focus: 7^th to 12^th centuries

a. Polity

b. Economy

c. Culture

d. Historians’ viewpoints on the nature of the crusades.

5.  Nomadic Empires

Focus: the Mongol, 13thto 14thcentury

a. The nature of nomadism

b. Formation of empires

c. Conquests   and   relations   with   other states

d. Historians’ views on nomadic societies and state formation

Section-III: Changing Traditions Introduction

6.  Three Orders

Focus: Western Europe, 13th-16thcentury

a. Feudal society and economy

b. Formation of states c.  Church and Society

d. Historians’ views on decline of feudalism.

7. Changing Cultural Traditions

Focus on Europe, 14thto 17thcentury

a. New ideas and new trends in literature and arts

b. Relationship with earlier ideas

c. The contribution of West Asia

d. Historians’ viewpoints on the validity of the notion ‘European Renaissance’

8.  Confrontation of Cultures

Focus on America, 15thto 18thcentury

a. European voyages of exploration

b. Search for gold; enslavement, raids, extermination.

c. Indigenous people and cultures – the Arawaks, the Aztecs, the Incas d.  The history of displacements

e. Historians’ viewpoints on the slave trade

Section - IV: Towards Modernisation

Introduction

9.  The Industrial Revolution

Focus on England, 18^th and 19^th century

a. Innovations and technological change

b. Patterns of growth

c. Emergence of a working class

d. Historians’ viewpoints, Debate on ‘Was there an Industrial Revolution?

10. Displacing Indigenous People

Focus on North America and Australia, 18th - 20^th century.

a. European colonists in North America and Australia

b. Formation of white settler societies

c. Displacement and repression of local people

d. Historians’ viewpoints on the impact of European settlement on indigenous population.

11. Paths to Modernization*

Focus on East Asia, late 19th and 20th century

a. Militarization and economic growth in Japan.

b. China and the Communist alternative.

c. Historians’ Debate on the meaning of modernization

(NOTE*: Keeping in view the importance of both the themes i.e. Japan and China, it is advised that both must be taught in the schools.)

CBSE Class 11 History Syllabus 2019-20: Project Work Class 11

Allocation of Marks (20)

Note: The project reports are to be preserved by the school till the final results are declared, for scrutiny by CBSE.

Few Suggestive Topics for Projects

1. Anthropological Research based on Darwin’s Theory

2. Critique of the industrialization in Britain

3. Relations and impacts of past crusades

4. Making and unmaking of Mesopotamia

5. Paradigms of Greeco-Roman civilization

6. Aspirations of women in Renaissance period

7. Paths to Modernization of Japan /China

8. An Exploratory study into Humanism

9. Piecing together the past of Genghis Khan

10. An in depth study into “now and then” paradigm of Christianity

11. An exploratory study into the realism and the transmission of Humanistic ideas

12. Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern science

13. An exploratory study into the making of America

14. Myriad Realms of Slavery in ancient, medieval and modern world

15. Learning about global Sufism

16. History of aborigines – America /Australia

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CBSE Class 11 History Syllabus 2019-20