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Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: : 3 hours

General Instructions:

i. Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There are 34 questions in the question paper. All questions
are compulsory.
ii. Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
iii. 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.
iv. 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.
v. Section D – Question no.31 to 33 are Source based questions with three sub questions and are of 4 marks each.
vi. 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.
vii. 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.
viii. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary.

Section A
1. Which historical period is the focus of “The Three Orders” in Themes in World History?
a) Ancient Egypt
b) Medieval Europe
c) Classical India
d) Feudal Japan
2. What is the meaning of mesos?
a) The Plateau region
b) The Highland
c) The Mid Land
d) An Island
3. When was Mesopotamian art of writing begun?
a) 2200 CE
b) 3200 CE
c) 3350 CE
d) 3200 BCE

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4. Identify the given image from the following options:

a) The Colosseum, built in 79 CE, where gladiators fought wild beasts

b) Amphitheatre at the Roman cantonment town of Vindonissa
c) Pont du Gard, near Nimes, France, first century BCE
d) Shops in Forum Julium, Rome
5. Which group constituted the largest population in the feudal society during medieval times?
a) Clergy
b) Nobility
c) Serfs
d) Merchants
6. What is the meaning of Yasa?
a) Legally Examined
b) Legal Authority
c) Illegal documents
d) Legal Code
7. Assertion (A): Iraq is known as the land of uniform environment.
Reason (R): It has undulating plains, mountain ranges, uplands, and deserts.
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. The political system in medieval Europe, based on reciprocal relationships between lords and vassals, is known as:
a) Democracy
b) Capitalism
c) Feudalism
d) Socialism
9. was the supreme authority in the church’s institution.
a) Devotee
b) Pope
c) King
d) Deity
10. Which religious institution played a significant role in medieval European society and was closely associated with the first
order?
a) Mosque
b) Church
c) Synagogue
d) Temple
11. The code of conduct that knights were expected to follow, emphasizing loyalty, bravery, and courtesy, is known as:
a) Chivalry
b) Code of Hammurabi
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d) Vassalage
12. What was the primary mode of subsistence for the nomadic empires?
a) Agriculture
b) Trading
c) Hunting and Gathering
d) Fishing
13. Which nomadic empire was known for its skilled horsemanship and archery?
a) Roman Empire
b) Mongol Empire
c) Ottoman Empire
d) Mughal Empire
14. Which social order enjoyed the privileges?
a) Serfs
b) Clergy
c) None of these
d) Peasantry
15. The Mongol Empire was founded by:
a) Genghis Khan
b) Alexander the Great
c) Julius Caesar
d) Attila the Hun
16. A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient
Mediterranean world for writing
a) All of these
b) Papyri

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c) Ancient ink
d) Annals
17. Who bestowed Temujin with the title of Genghis Khan?
a) Quriltai
b) Muhammad
c) The Prophet Muhammad
d) Mongke
18. Assertion (A): An average European could expect to live 10 years longer than in the eighth century. In comparison
to men, women and girls lived longer lives.
Reason (R): By the thirteenth century, men were able to eat better food.
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 nomadic empire is associated with the steppe region of Central Asia?
a) Huns
b) Aztecs
c) Persians
d) Egyptians
20. Which empire emerged across three continents and dominated a significant part of the ancient world?
a) Roman Empire
b) Egyptian Empire
c) Maurya Empire
d) Mongol Empire

21. The empire that extended from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) to northern India was known as the:
a) Ottoman Empire
b) Gupta Empire
c) Persian Empire
d) Maurya Empire
Section B
22. Discuss any four factors responsible for the decline of feudalism.
23. How did corruption come in administrative system in the late Roman bureaucracy?
24. Discuss the economic development made in Rome in the late antiquity. What was its result?

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25. What does ‘Post – Roman’ mean in the 540’s?
26. Write about the town planning of the Mesopotamian cities.
27. "The use of seals played significant role in the development of trade and urbanisation in Mesopotamia." Discuss.
Section C
28. Why did the nomadic organisation of the Mongols have to trade with China?
29. Who was Genghis Khan? How did he become the Great Khan of the Mongols?
30. Define the territorial position of the Roman empire.
31. What does the term ‘Republic’ refer to in the history of the Roman empire?
Section D
32. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
Copernicus asserted that the planets, including the earth, rotate around the sun. A devout Christian, Copernicus was
afraid of the possible reaction to his theory by traditionalist clergymen. For this reason, he did not want his manuscript,
De revolutionibus (The Rotation) to be printed. On his deathbed, he gave it to his follower, Joachim Rheticus. It took
time for people to accept this idea. It was much later - more than half a century later, in fact - that the difference between
‘heaven’ and earth was bridged through the writings of astronomers like Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and Galileo
Galilei (1564-1642). The theory of the earth as part of a sun-centred system was made popular by Kepler’s
Cosmographical Mystery, which demonstrated that the planets move around the sun not in circles but in ellipses. Galileo
confirmed the notion of the dynamic world in his work The Motion. This revolution in science reached its climax with
Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation.
i. Explain the Christian notion of the universe and earth.
ii. Why did Copernicus not print his manuscript?
iii. Name the manuscript that Copernicus hand over to his follower Joachim Rheticus.
33. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
The Roman Empire can broadly be divided into two phases, ‘early’ and ‘late’, divided by the third century as a sort of
historical watershed between them. In other words, the whole period down to the main part of the third century can be
called the ‘early empire’, and the period after that the ‘late empire’. A major difference between the two superpowers
and their respective empires was that the Roman Empire was culturally much more diverse than that of Iran. The
Parthians and later the Sasanians, the dynasties that ruled Iran in this period, ruled over a population that was largely
Iranian. The Roman Empire, by contrast, was a mosaic of territories and cultures that were chiefly bound together by a
common system of government. Many languages were spoken in the empire, but for the purposes of administration Latin
and Greek were the most widely used, indeed the only languages. The upper classes of the east spoke and wrote in
Greek, those of the west in Latin, and the boundary between these broad language areas ran somewhere across the

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middle of the Mediterranean, between the African provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. All those who lived in the
empire were subjects of a single ruler, the emperor, regardless of where they lived and what language they spoke.
i. Which two dynasties ruled Iran during this period?
ii. What do you infer from the statement, "the Roman Empire was a mosaic of territories and cultures."
iii. Identify the two rival superpowers and state how they differed.
34. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
The nobility had, in reality, a central role in social processes. This is because they controlled land. This control was the
outcome of a practice called ‘vassalage’. The kings of France were linked to the people by ‘vassalage’, similar to the
practice among the Germanic peoples, of whom the Franks were one. The big landowners - the nobles - were vassals of
the king, and peasants were vassals of the landowners. A nobleman accepted the king as his seigneur (senior) and they
made a mutual promise: the seigneur/lord would protect the vassal, who would be loyal to him. This relationship
involved elaborate rituals and exchange of vows taken on the Bible in a church. At this ceremony, the vassal received a
written charter or a staff or even a clod of earth as a symbol of the land that was being given to him by his master. The
noble enjoyed a privileged status. He had absolute control over his property, in perpetuity. He could raise troops called
‘feudal levies’. The lord held his own courts of justice and could even coin his own money. He was the lord of all the
people settled on his land. He owned vast tracts of land which contained his own dwellings, his private fields and
pastures and the homes and fields of his tenant-peasants. His house was called a manor. His private lands were cultivated
by peasants, who were also expected to act as footsoldiers in battle when required, in addition to working on their own
farms.
i. Examine the relationship between a vassal to his master or lord under the vassalage system.
ii. Trace the origin of the title lord within the nobility.
iii. State two examples to show how the noble enjoyed a privileged status.
Section E

35. On the given map of South-East Asia mark and locate the following places related to Mongol empire:
(i) Karakorum
(ii) Moscow
(iii) Turfan
(iv) Merv

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(vi) Balkh

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