Feudalism
1. Dark Ages
2. Fief
3. Feudal pyramid
4. Serfdom
5. Barter system
6. Subsistent farming
7. Closed economy
8. Black Death
9. Second Agricultural Revolution
10. High plough
11. Three Field system
12. Division of Roman Empire
13. Western Roman Empire
14. Eastern Roman Empire(Byzantian Empire)
15. Fall of Western Roman Empire
16. Fall of Constantinople
17. Trace out the causes for the origin of Feudalism in Europe
18. What is Crusades and examine the impact of crusades over feudal system of Europe?
19. What is Manorialism? Explain
20. Describe the features of European Feudalism
21. Trace out the causes for the decline of Feudalism
22.
Commercial Revolution /Industrial Revolution/ Capitalism/Agricultural Revolution
23. Bullionism
24. Guild system
25. Putting out system
26. Commercial Revolution
27. Genesis of Capitalism
28. Mercantalism
29. Laizez Faire
30. Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations)
31. Factory system
32. Industrial revolution
33. Steam Engine/ James Watt
34. John Metclaf
35. Capitalism
36. Capitalist class(bourgeoise)
37. Labours or prolitariats
38. Mechanization
39. Urbanization
40. Large scale production
41. Third agricultural Revolution
42. Atlantic trade
43. Meditteranian Trade
44. Silk Route
45. Explain second agricultural revolution, How far it contributed to the decline of Feudalism
46. Why Industrial Revolution began in England
47. What is the causes for Industrial Revolution
48. Analyse the consequences of Industrial Revolution
49. Karl Marx
50. Rosa Luxemburg(Capital Accumulation)
51. Immanuel Wallersteine(World System Theory)
52. Max Weber( The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism)
53. how far scientific revolution contributed to Industrial Revolution
Colonialism
54. What is Colonialism?
55. Theories of Colonialism
56. Experiences of Asia and Africa under colonialism
57. What is imperialism
58. Why did commercial revolution consider as the genesis of capitalism or Industrial revolution
59. What is Capitalism? Analyse its features
60.
Renaissance
61. Machiavelli
62. Petrarch
63. Michael Angelo
64. Galileo
65. Copper Nicus
66. Copper Nican Revolution
67. Rene Descartes
68. Mechanistic view(Rene Descarte)
69. Issac Newton
70. John Locke Francis Bacon
71. Voltaire
72. Rousseau
73. Montesquie
74. What is Renaissance explain its cause and features
75. Why did Renaissance began in Italy
76. Analyse the contributions of Machiavelli to Renaissance
77. Explain the contributions or ideas of major renaissance figures
Great Schism and Reformation
78. Paganism
79. Emperor Constantine
80. Edict of Milan
81. New Rome
82. The Council of Nicea
83. Papacy
84. Iconoclast
85. Trinity
86. Pope
87. Patriarch
88. Eastern Church or Latin Church
89. Western Church or Greek Church or Orthodox Church
90. What is Great Schism or East- West Schism
91. Nethorianism
92. Divine Will
93. Examine the contribution of Constantine in the growth and development of Christiandom in the
West or Europe
94. Analyse the causes of Great schism
95. Examine the role of Church in the social, economic and political life of Europe
96. Analyse the relationship between church and State during the Medieval period
97. Sale of Indulgence
98. John Tutzel
99. Pope Leo
100. Martin Luther
101. What is Lutherinism
102. What is Calvinism
103. John Calvin
104. Henry VIII
105. Who were Protestants
106. What is Protestantism
107. Puritans
108. Presbitarians
109. Analyse the evils in the Church
110. ‘Reformation is the child of Renaissance’ Examine orHow far Renaissance contributed to
Reformation
111. Examine the Political causes of Reformation
112. Examine the Economic causes of Reformation
113. How far the degeneration of the Church contributed to the Reformation
114. Examine the immediate cause of Reformation?
115. Analyse the Contribution of Martin Luther to Reformation or Protestantism
116. Analyse the role of John Calvin to Protestantism
117. How far invention of printing Press Contributed to the Reformation
The French Revolution 1789
118. Third Estate
119. Oath of Tennis Court(20th June 1789
120. French National Assembly
121. French Physiocrats
122. Laizez Faire
123. Voltaire
124. Montesquie
125. Rousseu
126. Mirabeau
127. Declarations of the Rights of Man
128. Fall of Bastille
129. LouisXVI
130. Marie Antoinette
131. Reign of Terror
132. Girondists
133. Jacobins
134. Paris Commune
135. The Directory
136. Analyse the causes and Consequences of French Revolution
137. Explain the intellectual back ground of French Revolution or explain the contributions of
intellectuals to the French Revolution or role of intellectuals in Enlightenment.
138. Analyse the significance/ influence/impact of French Revolution
Socialism
139. Predecessors of socialism
140. Thomas More(Utopia)
141. Saint Simon
142. Robert Owen
143. Joseph Proudhoun
144. Charles Fourier
145. Louis Blanc
146. Michail Bakunin
147. Karl Marx(Das Capital)
148. Engels
149. Communist Manifesto(Marx and Engels)
150. Asiatic Mode of Production
151. Primitive society
152. Slave society
153. Capitalist society
154. Materialistic Interpretation of History
155. Class Struggle
156. Base-Superstructure Theory
157. Write an essay on Socialism( definition, forerunners, objectives,modern socialism, propagators,
contributions of Marx, influence of socialism)
China
158. Mandate of Heaven
159. Fengijan
160. Well field system
161. Dafu
162. Major and minor lineages(kinship)ing state period
163. Legalism
164. Land Reforms of Qin
165. Primogeniture
166. Horizontal and vertical alliance
167. Gentry state
168. Confucianism
169. Ninth ranking system
170. Toba system
171. Land equalization system
172. Fubing system
173. Social hierarchy under Ming dynasty
174. Opium wars
175. Analyse the contributions of Zhou dynasty in the growth and development of Feudalism in
China?
176. What is Legalism and analyse the role of Legalism in the decline of feudalism in China?
177. Explain the Administration under Qin dynasty or reforms introduced by Qin
178. Explain Chinese Feudalism or Fengijan system, analyse its features and examine the causes of its
decline
179. Why did the period of Ming dynasty is considered as the ‘Golden Age of China’?
180. Explain the growth of gentry state under Han dynasty
181. Explain the administration (administrative reforms ) under Han dynasty
182. Explain land reforms and other reforms of Tang dynasty
183. Trace out the signs of early capitalism under the administration of Ming Dynasty
Scientific Revolution
184. Geocentrism
185. Heliocentrism
186. Copernicun Revolution
187. Galileo Galili
188. Rene Descarte- mechanism-scepticism-deductive method
189. What is mechanistic view
190. Newtonianism
191. What is Scientific Revolution
192. What are the causes that led to the growth of scientific revolution
193. How far Reanaissance helped Scientific Revolution
194. How far Reformation helped scientific revolution
195. What is the impact of Scientific Revolution
196. How far Scientific Revolution contributed to Enlightenment
Enlightenment
197. Voltaire(Rationalism) The Philosophical Dictionary,
198. Henriade, Candide
199. Elements of Newtons Philosophy
200. Epistle on the Newtonian Philosophy (Poem)
201. Views of Voltaire on Truth
202. Views of Voltaire on religion
203. Views of Voltaire over Polytheism
204. Views of Voltaire on ‘cause’
205. Views of Voltaire over Government, (monarchy and Republic) and patriotism
206. Views of Voltaire on Equality,
207. Views of Voltaire on Liberty and Law
208. Thomas Hobbes
209. Diderot
210. Rousseau(Romanticism), The Social Contract,
211. Views of Rousseau over education (Emile)
212. Views of Rousseau on government
213. Views of Rousseau on Democracy, Sovereignty
214. Vies of Rousseau over the division of Govt.
215. Views of Rousseau on Law
216. Views of Rousseau on the origin and development of Inequality
217. Vies of Rousseau on equality
218. View of Rousseau on Liberty
219. Views of Rousseau over slavery
220. Views of Rousseau on patriotism
221. Views of Rousseau on Health
222. Views of Rousseau on Language
223. View of Rousseau on man/ man- nature relation
224. Francis Bacon(Father of Empiricism)
225. John Locke(liberalism)(Father of Liberlism)
226. Montesquieu
227. Adam Smith(Economics)(Wealth of Nations, Free Trade, Competition etc)(Liberal Economic
Theory, Laizez Faire, Theory of Social Progress)
228. Wealth of Nations
229. David Hume
230. Rationalism
231. Guten Burg
232. Rene Descarte(Cartesianism, mechanistic view)
233. Immanuel Kant( Anti-cartesianism)
234. Empiricism
235. Political Economy
236. Democracy
237. Aristocracy
238. Monarchy
239. Examine the factors that promoted the emergence the Enlightenment movement and its
impact over various spheres of life
240. How far Scientific Revolution contributed to the growth of enlighten movement
241. Analyse the influence of Issac Newton over Enlightenment movement.
242. Explain the contributions of Enlightenment
243. Examine how Enlightenment influenced print and press
244. Explain the contributions of Voltaire to the Enlightenment movement or rationalism or
rationalist movement
245. Contribution of Voltaire in popularize Newton’s philosophy
246. Explain the contribution of Rousseau to Enlightenment movement
247. Explain the contributions of John Locke towards Liberalism
248. Explain Liberalism
249. Examine how Enlightenment molded the social political economic and cultural life of Europe
during the eighteenth century
