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 Series ARSP/01 Set ~ 1
Roll No. Q.P Code 15/1/1
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. Where was atomic bomb dropped on 6th August 1945 C.E.? [1]

a) Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima b) Nagasaki

c) Tokyo d) Hiroshima
2. Cross (x) the incorrect option: [1]

a) Hwang-Ho-Mesopotamian civilisation b) Euphrates-Mesopotamian civilisation

c) Tigris-Mesopotamian civilisation d) Indus-Indus Valley civilisation

3. The Mesopotamian city, which was systematically excavated in the 1930s, was [1]

a) Mari b) Ur

c) Nineveh d) Uruk
4. Identify the given image from the following options: [1]
 a) Pont du Gard, near Nimes, France, first b) Shops in Forum Julium, Rome
century BCE

c) Amphitheatre at the Roman cantonment d) The Colosseum, built in 79 CE, where

town of Vindonissa gladiators fought wild beasts
5. Assertion (A): Eurasian Empire is called an Empire across Three Continents. [1]
Reason (R): The ancient Roman Empire was spread across the three continents namely – Europe, Asia and
Africa.

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. Who was the founder of Yuan dynasty? [1]

a) Arik Buka b) Harihar Buka

c) Toluy d) Qubilai Khan

7. Assertion (A): The only reasons for early urbanization were natural fertility and high levels of food production. [1]
Reason (R): Urban economies comprise besides food production, trade, manufactures and services.

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 person with the help of following information [1]
He was the third President of the USA
His dream was a country populated by Europeans with small farms.

a) Thomas Jefferson b) John Adams

c) James Madison d) George Washington

9. Which of the following is a section of third order: [1]

a) Free Peasants b) King

c) Paid Peasants d) Jamidaars

10. Consider the following statements and select the correct from the following option: [1]
i. In the north-east of Iraq lie green, undulating plains
ii. In the south of Iraq there is a stretch of upland called a steppe
iii. To the east of Iraq tributaries of the Tigris provide routes of communication into the mountains of Iran

a) i and iii b) ii and iii

c) i and ii d) i, ii and iii

11. Find out the correct chronological order from the following options: [1]
i. University established in Florence
ii. Petrarch given title of ‘Poet Laureate’ in Rome
iii. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales published
iv. Humanism taught at Padua University in Italy

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

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

12. Chiang-Kai-Shek could not lead the NPP properly because [1]

a) He launched a campaign to eliminate the b) He was driven out at Taiwan

communists

c) He could not make his base strong d) He was aggressive

13. Match the following and select the correct option [1]

List I List II

1. 1516 A. Martin Luther writes the Ninety-Five Theses

2. 1517 B. Luther translates the Bible into German

3. 1522 C. Peasant uprising in Germany

4. 1525 D. Thomas More’s Utopia published

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

c) 1 - a, 2 - d, 3 - c, 4 - b d) 1 - b, 2 - c, 3 - d, 4 - a
14. A guild was an association of [1]

a) craft and industry b) farmers

c) monks d) lords
15. When was treaty of Shimonoseki signed? [1]

a) 1897 b) 1890

c) 1893 d) 1895
16. When did Nero become the Roman emperor? [1]

a) 94 BCE b) 54 BCE

c) 94 CE d) 54 CE
17. Mongol rulers took keen interest in the region of ________. [1]

a) China b) Southern India

c) Japan d) Korea
18. Assertion (A): In the reign of Louis XIII of France, a meeting was held of the French consultative assembly. [1]
After this, it was not summoned again for nearly two centuries, till 1789.
Reason (R): The first order i.e. clergy did not want to share power with the three orders.

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. Which of these documents was issued by church? [1]

a) Luther’s theses b) Stamp papers

c) Legal documents d) Indulgences

20. Match the following and select the correct option [1]

List I List II

1. 1603 A. Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes the Edo shogunate

2. 1868 B. Korea annexed

3. 1889 C. Meiji Constitution enacted

4. 1910 D. Restoration of Meiji

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

c) 1 - c, 2 - b, 3 - d, 4 - a d) 1 - d, 2 - a, 3 - b, 4 - c
21. Natives were puzzled by the fact that the European traders sometimes gave them a lot of things in exchange for [1]
their goods, sometimes very little because

a) Europeans were clever people b) prices were fluctuating every year

c) they had no sense of market and fluctuation d) they thought they are cheated
in demand and supply
Section B
22. Which new social class emerged in Europe in the last years of the medieval age and why? [3]
OR
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
23. Write a short note on Gutenberg’s achievements. [3]
24. Give a brief description of the Republican System of the Roman Empire. [3]
25. Write a brief note on Shoguns. [3]
26. Why Mesopotamia is considered important by Europeans? Give reasons. [3]
27. Agriculture in South Mesopotamia was sometimes subject to hazards. Which factors were responsible for it? [3]
OR
How did Mesopotamians write?
Section C
28. What was the condition of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century? What role did Yasa play in it? [8]
OR
Discuss the early career and achievements of Genghis Khan.
29. What arrangements were given in favour and against Japan’s opening to the outer world? [8]
OR
Discuss the achievements of Deng Xiaoping.
30. Explain the reasons for changes in the landscapes of America in the 19th century. What were these changes? [8]
OR
 Explain the winds of change in North America after 1920s.
Section D
31. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
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. (1)
ii. Why did Copernicus not print his manuscript? (1)
iii. Name the manuscript that Copernicus hand over to his follower Joachim Rheticus. (2)
32. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Slavery was an institution deeply rooted in the ancient world, both in the Mediterranean and in the Near East,
and not even Christianity when it emerged and triumphed as the state religion (in the fourth century) seriously
challenged this institution. It does not follow that the bulk of the labour in the Roman economy was performed
by slaves. That may have been true of large parts of Italy in the Republican period (under Augustus there were
still 3 million slaves in a total Italian population of 7.5 million) but it was no longer true of the empire as a
whole. Slaves were an investment, and at least one Roman agricultural writer advised landowners against using
them in contexts where too many might be required (for example, for harvests) or where their health could be
damaged (for example, by malaria). These considerations were not based on any sympathy for the slaves but on
hard economic calculation. On the other hand, if the Roman upper classes were often brutal towards their slaves,
ordinary people did sometimes show much more compassion. See what one historian says about a famous
incident that occurred in the reign of Nero. As warfare became less widespread with the establishment of peace
in the first century, the supply of slaves tended to decline and the users of slave labour thus had to turn either to
slave breeding or to cheaper substitutes such as wage labour which was more easily dispensable. In fact, free
labour was extensively used on public works at Rome precisely because an extensive use of slave labour would
have been too expensive. Unlike hired workers, slaves had to be fed and maintained throughout the year, which
increased the cost of holding this kind of labour. This is probably why slaves are not widely found in the
agriculture of the later period, at least not in the eastern provinces. On the other hand, they and freedmen, that is,
slaves who had been set free by their masters, were extensively used as business managers, where, obviously,
they were not required in large numbers. Masters often gave their slaves or freedmen capital to run businesses on
their behalf or even businesses of their own.
i. Infer the reason for the decline in the supply of trade in the first century. (1)
ii. Prudent landowners gradually switched over to slave breeding or hiring paid laborers. What is slave
breeding? (1)
iii. Why were the landowners advised against using slaves where too many of them were required? (2)
33. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Because of the inadequacy which we often felt on feast days, for the narrowness of the place forced the women
 to run towards the altar upon the heads of the men with much anguish and noisy confusion, [we decided] to
enlarge and amplify the noble church...
We also caused to be painted, by the exquisite hands of many masters from different regions, a splendid variety
of new windows... Because these windows are very valuable on account of their wonderful execution and the
profuse expenditure of painted glass and also a goldsmith... who would receive their allowances, namely, coins
from the altar and flour from the common storehouse of the brethren, and who would never neglect their duty, to
look after these [works of art].
-Abbot Suger (1081-1151) about the Abbey of St Denis, near Paris.
i. Why was it decided to enlarge and amplify the noble Church? (1)
ii. With what names, the big churches were called? (1)
iii. Why were an official master craftsman and a goldsmith appointed in the big churches? (2)
Section E
34. i. On the given map of West Asia, locate and label the given cities of Mesopotamia. [5]

a. Babylon
b. Uruk
c. Ur
OR
d. Eridu

ii. In the given map of Europe, three sites have been marked as A and B from where the fish bones have been
found. Identify any two of them and write their correct names on the lines marked near them.