Syllabus Of Grade XI - HISTORY (HS1111)

Unit 1. Introduction to World History (05 Marks)

Unit 2. Introduction of Early Societies. (05 Marks)

Unit 3. From the Beginning of Time (05 Marks)

Focus : Africa, Europe till 15000 BC

• Views on the origin of human beings.
• Early societies.
• Historians' views on present-day hunting-gathering societies.

Unit 4. Early Cities (05 Marks)

Focus : Iraq, 3rd millennium BC

• Growth of towns.
• Nature of early urban societies.
• Historians' Debate on uses of writing

Unit 5. Introduction of Empires (05 Marks)

Unit 6. An Empire across Three Continents (05 Marks)

Focus: Roman Empire, 27 B.C to A.D 600.

• Political evolution
• Economic expansion
• Religion
• Late Antiquity.
• Historians' views on the institution of Slavery.

Unit 7. Central Islamic Lands (05 Marks)

Focus: 7th to 12th centuries

• Polity
• Economy
• Culture.
• Historians' viewpoints on the nature of the crusades.

Unit 8. Nomadic Empires (05 Marks)

Focus: The Mongol, 13th to 14th century

• The nature of nomadism.
• ormation of empires.
• Conquests and relations with other states.
• Historians' views on nomadic societies and state formation.

Unit 9. Introduction of Changing Traditions (05 Marks)

Unit 10. Three Orders (05 Marks)

Focus: Western Europe, 13th-16th century

• Feudal society and economy.
• Formation of states.
• Church and Society.
• Historians' views on decline of feudalism.

Unit 11. Changing Cultural Traditions (05 Marks)

Focus on Europe, 14th to 17th century

• New ideas, and new trends in literature and arts.
• Relationship with earlier ideas
• The contribution of West Asia.
• Historians' viewpoints on the validity of the notion 'European Renaissance'.

Unit 12. Confrontation of Cultures (10 Marks)

Focus on America, 15th to 18th century

• European voyages of exploration.
• Search for gold; enslavement, raids, extermination.
• Indigenous people and cultures - the Arawaks, the Aztecs, the Incas.
• The history of displacements.
• Historians' viewpoints on the slave trade.

Unit 13. Introduction of Paths to Modernization (05 Marks)

Unit 14. The Industrial Revolution (05 Marks)

Focus on England, 18th and 19th century

• Innovations and technological change
• Patterns of growth.
• Emergence of a working class.
• Historians' viewpoints, Debate on 'Was there an Industrial Revolution?

Unit 15. Displacing Indigenous People (05 Marks)

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

• European colonists in North America and Australia.
• Formation of white settler societies.
• Displacement and repression of local people.
• Historians' viewpoints on the impact of European settlement on indigenous population.

Unit 16. Paths to Modernization (10 Marks)

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

• Militarization and economic growth in Japan.
• China and the Communist alternative.
• Historians' Debate on the meaning of modernization

Unit 17. Map Work on Units 1-16 (10 Marks)