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 Series ARSP/08 Set ~ 08
Roll No. Q.P Code 15/08/08
Candidates must write the Q.P Code
on the title page of the answer-book.

 Please check that this question paper contains 06 printed pages.

 Q.P. Code given on the right hand side of the question paper should be written
on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate.
 Please check that this question paper ontains
c 38 questions.
 Please write down the serial number of the question in the answer-book
before attempting it.
 15 Minute times has been allotted to read this question paper. The question
paper will be distributed at 10:15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m to 10.30 a.m, the students
will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the answer –
book during this period.

HISTORY

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80

Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80

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. Which of these towns began to develop as centres of art and learning? [1]

a) Venice b) Florence

c) Rome d) All of these

2. The path of modernisation runs between [1]

a) Availability of men and machines b) Thought and their application

c) The situations and the means d) Availability of resources

3. Where was gold found in 1849 in America? [1]

a) Alaska b) California

c) Newjercy d) Hawai
4. Identify the given image from the following options: [1]
 a) The Palace at Mari of King Zimrilim b) The Palace at Uruk of King Gilgamesh

c) The Palace at Mohenjo-Daro of King d) The Palace at Ur of King Nabopolassar

Hammurabi
5. Assertion (A): The Elder Pliny favoured the use of slave gangs as the worst method of organising production. [1]
Reason (R): Slaves who worked in gangs were usually chained together by their feet.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

6. Mesopotamia is in modem ________. [1]

a) Iran b) Syria

c) Egypt d) Iraq
7. Assertion (A): Mesopotamia was important to Europeans. [1]
Reason (R): Travellers and scholars of Sumer looked at Mesopotamia as a kind of ancestral land, and when
archaeological work began in the area, there was an attempt to prove the literal truth of the Old Testament.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

8. Identify the type of peasant with the help of following information. [1]
They cultivated plots of land, but these belonged to the lord, so the major of the produce had to be given to
the lord.
They also had to work on the land which belonged exclusively to the lord.

a) Plowman b) Seigneur

c) Serfs d) Knight
9. After the decline of the Manchu empire, a republic was established in 1911 in ________. [1]

a) China b) Japan

c) Korea d) Mongolia
10. Consider the following statements and select the correct from the following option: [1]
i. The Mongols were a diverse body of people, linked by similarities of language to the Tatars, Khitan and
Manchus to the east, and the Turkic tribes to the west.
ii. Some of the Mongols were pastoralists while others were hunter-gatherers. The pastoralists tended cattle,
goats and camels and, to a lesser extent, horses, sheep.
iii. They nomadised in the steppes of Central Asia in a tract of land in the area of the modern state of Mongolia.

a) ii and iii b) i and ii

 c) i, ii and iii d) i and iii
11. Find out the correct chronological order from the following options: [1]
i. James Cook reaches Botany Bay, named New South Wales
ii. Tasman lands on the island later named Tasmania
iii. Dutch travellers sight Australia
iv. British penal colony formed. Sydney founded

a) ii, iii, iv, i b) iii, ii, i, iv

c) iv, ii, i, iii d) i, ii, iii, iv

12. Nuclear Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by ________. [1]

a) China b) USA

c) USSR d) England
13. Which among the following is Correctly matched? [1]

List I List II

(A) 5th-14th century The Modern Ages

(B) 9th-11th century The Stone Ages

(C) 5th-9th century The Dark Ages

(D) 11th-14th century The Late Stone Ages

a) Option (C) b) Option (A)

c) Option (B) d) Option (D)

14. In Roman urban life, the entertainment shows called spectacular happened for at least [1]

a) 160 days b) 150 days

c) 167 days d) 176 days

15. Which of these banks was established in 1882? [1]

a) Bank of Russia b) Bank of China

c) Bank of India d) Bank of Japan

16. Who was Mongke? [1]

a) Father of Genghis Khan b) Grandfather of Genghis Khan

c) Grandson of Genghis Khan d) Son of Genghis Khan

17. Mongol rulers were more interested in ________. [1]

a) Japan b) China

c) Russia d) India
18. Assertion (A): God makes distinctions among his flock, in heaven as on earth. [1]
Reason (R): It is necessary to establish differences among human beings so that they do not destroy each other.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
explanation of A. correct explanation of A.
 c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.
19. When was slavery legally abolished in America? [1]

a) 1861 b) 1867

c) 1876 d) 1865
20. Match the following and select the correct option [1]

List I List II

1. 1949 A. Death of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai

2. 1962 B. People’s Republic of China

3. 1966 C. Cultural Revolution

4. 1976 D. China attacks India over border dispute

a) 1 - d, 2 - a, 3 - b, 4 - c b) 1 - b, 2 - c, 3 - d, 4 - a

c) 1 - c, 2 - b, 3 - d, 4 - a d) 1 - b, 2 - d, 3 - c, 4 - a
21. Which is the most important industry in Canada? [1]

a) All of these b) Agriculture

c) Fishing d) Mining
Section B
22. Explain the rise of Japan as an imperialist power between 1890 and 1914. [3]
OR
Why did the Guomindang despite its attempts to unite the country fail?
23. Write any two factors responsible for the displacement of the natives by the Europeans. [3]
24. Write any three rules formulated by Genghis Khan to lay special emphasis on discipline in the army. [3]
25. What was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? What was its result? [3]
26. Mobile animal herding (rearing) not necessarily a threat to town life. Why? [3]
27. What was the reaction of the natives of Australia against the advent of the Europeans in Australia? [3]
OR
Why did the Europeans start to come and settle down in America during 19th century? Write any three reasons
behind it.
Section C
28. Describe the life and achievements of Martin Luther. [8]
OR
Discuss the rise of Protestant Reformation Movement launched in Europe in the 16th and 17th century.
29. Describe the technological changes and its effect in agriculture during the 11th century. [8]
OR
What were agriculture related problems in Europe in the initial stage? What was its effect on the life of people?
30. How the third century crisis was different than the first and second centuries a period of peace? [8]
OR
Briefly describe the process of decline of the Roman Empire.
Section D
31. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
 YASA
In 1221, after the conquest of Bukhara, Genghis Khan had assembled the rich Muslim residents at the festival
ground and had admonished them. He called them sinners and warned them to compensate for their sins by
parting with their hidden wealth. The episode was dramatic enough to be painted and for a long time afterwards
people still remembered the incident. In the late sixteenth century, 'Abdullah Khan, a distant descendant of Jochi,
Genghis Khan's eldest son, went to the same festival ground in Bukhara. Unlike Genghis Khan, however,
'Abdullah Khan went to perform his holiday prayers there. His chronicler, Hafiz-i Tanish, reported this
performance of Muslim piety by his master and included the surprising comment: 'this was according to the yasa
of Genghis Khan'.
i. What is the meaning of Yasa? (1)
ii. After which conquest, Genghis Khan had assembled the rich Muslim residents at the festival ground? (1)
iii. What is the importance of Yasa? (2)
32. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901)
Born in an impoverished samurai family, he studied in Nagasaki and Osaka learning Dutch and Western sciences
and, later, English. In I860, he went as a translator for the first Japanese embassy to the USA. This provided
material for a book on the West, written not in the classical but in the spoken style that became extremely
popular. He established a school that is today the Keio University. He was one of the core members of the
Meirokusha, a society to promote Western learning. In The Encouragement to Learning (Gakumon no susume,
1872-76) he was very critical of Japanese knowledge: 'All that Japan has to be proud of is its scenery'. He
advocated not just modern factories and institutions but the cultural essence of the West-the spirit of civilisation.
With this spirit it would be possible to build a new citizen. His principle was: Heaven did not create men above
men, nor set men below men.’
i. What do you know about Fukuzawa Yukichi? (1)
ii. What did he advocate? (1)
iii. Mention the name of the book in which he was critical of Japanese knowledge. (2)
33. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
All societies have languages in which certain spoken sounds convey certain meanings. This is verbal
communication. Writing too is verbal communication - but in a different way. When we talk about writing or a
script, we mean that spoken sounds are represented in visible signs. The first Mesopotamian tablets, contained
picture-like signs and numbers. Clearly, writing began when society needed to keep records of transactions -
because in city life transactions occurred at different times, and involved many people and a variety of goods
Mesopotamians wrote on tablets of clay. A scribe would wet clay and pat it into a size he could hold comfortably
in one hand. He would carefully smoothen its surfaces. With the sharp end of a reed cut obliquely, he would
press wedge-shaped (cuneiform) signs onto the smoothened surface while it was still moist. Once dried in the
sun, the clay would harden and tablets would be almost as indestructible as pottery. When a written record of,
say, the delivery of pieces of metal had ceased to be relevant, the tablet was thrown away. Once the surface
dried, signs could not be pressed on to a tablet: so each transaction, however minor, required a separate written
tablet. This is why tablets occur by the hundreds at Mesopotamian sites. And it is because of this wealth of
sources that we know so much more about Mesopotamia than we do about contemporary India. By 2600 BCE or
so, the letters became cuneiform, and the language was Sumerian. The writing was now used not only for
keeping records, but also for making dictionaries, giving legal validity to land transfers, narrating the deeds of
 kings, and announcing the changes a king had made in the customary laws of the land. Sumerian, the earliest
known language of Mesopotamia, was gradually replaced after 2400 BCE by the Akkadian language. Cuneiform
writing in the Akkadian language continued in use until the first century CE, that is, for more than 2,000 years.
i. What do you infer from the statement Writing too is verbal communication? (1)
ii. By 2600 BCE or so, the letters became cuneiform. What do you know about cuneiform? (1)
iii. State the reason behind the invention of writing. (2)
Section E
34. i. On the given map of West Asia, locate and label the given cities: [5]

a. Bukhara
b. Edessa
c. Mecca
OR
d. Dubai

ii. On the given map of Western Europe, three places have been marked as A and B which are associated with
the extent of feudalism. Identify any two of them and write their correct names on the lines marked near
them.