AMAR
QUESTION
1. Trace the relationship between the biological and cultural evolution of humankind.
2. Can the Mesolithic age be described as a transitional phase? Discuss its main features with
reference to the European Mesolithic
3. Critically examine the various factors that led to the origins of food production
4. Write an essay on the Neolithic pattern of settlement and subsistence in south-west Asia
5. Discuss the role of environment in the rise and growth of first civilization in
china/create/Egypt/Mesopotamia
6. Analyze the nature of economy state formation and society with reference to any one of the
following bronze age civilization a) Mesopotamia ,b)Egypt
7. Explain the advent of iron technology and its significance transforming early societies
8. Evaluate the important stages in the evolution of human kind
9. In what ways did the Mesolithic adaptations contribute to the emergence of settled farming
communities? Discuss in detail
10. ‘There can be no mono-casual explanation for the beginnings of food production’. In the context
of this statement, analyze the relevant theories and debates.
11. What do you understand by term Neolithic revolution? explain the various features of the
Neolithic cultures of south west Asia and Europe
12. Review the salient features and evidence of nomadic pastoralism in south west Asia in the third
and second millennium BCE
13. Discuss the process of urbanization in any one of the following civilization Mesopotamia
/Egypt/china/eastern Mediterranean
14. Salient features of Mesolithic cultures of west Asia and Europe
15. Describe the growth of social, cultural and political complexities in any one of the following
bronze age civilization of the ancient world a)summerian and akkadian
16. Discuss the salient features of slave society in ancient Greece
17. Man’s future as an artist was intimated by the cave paintings of the paleaolithic age? Explain
18. Discuss the significance of the transition from hunter-gathering economy of food producing
economy. Do you agree that it should be termed Neolithic revolution?
19. Who were Sumerian? how did they occupy Mesopotamia? discuss the economy, political,
religious and cultural aspects of the Sumerian civilization?
20. Discuss the evolution of the state and society in Mesopotamia from the dawn of civilization to
the reign of Hammurabi. how did the code of Hammurabi help in the reconstruction of
Mesopotamia ? what is bronze age analyse the process of urbanization in bronze age
Mesopotamia
21. Who were akkadians? Discuss the economy . social stratification, religion and state structure of
Mesopotamia under the akkadian empire?
22. How was roman slavery different from greek slavery? How did it affect roman agriculture, trade
and urbanization
23. Discuss the main features of the slave mode of production in the Greece-roman world what led
crisis in it?
24. Write a short note on the origin of iron
25. Note on iron age and its implication
26. Write short note on
1)ice age art
2)animal domestication
3)urban revolution
4) pastornal economy in west asia
5)Paleolithic tool technology
6)plant domestication
7) bronze age
8)advent of iron
9)homo erectus
10)advent of iron and its implication
11) Paleolithic art
12)bronze age urbanization
13)Neolithic revolution
14)Greek science and philosophy
15)
DEEPA
QUESTION
1. What do you understand by human evolution
2. What is meant by Paleolithic age ? what was climate during this period
3. What kind of tools and weapons were used during the Palaeolithic age
4. Which are the three stages of palaeolithic age?
5. Disuss the art during upper palaeolithic age
6. Paleolithic art and culture
7. What is Mesolithic period
8. Art in Mesolithic period
9. How did the agriculture or food production begin?
10. Origin and development of agriculture
11. What do you understand by the Neolithic revolution? what were the features and
effects of this revolution
12. How did the Neolithic art shape during this period? What ere the changes in it?
13. When did domestication of animal begin? How did it spread across around the world
during pre-history?
14. What is animal husbandry? When did it being and how it flourish?
15. How was the bronze age spanned in Mesopotamia?
16. Describe the economy and trade during Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia
17. Give social structure of sumer civilization
18. Main features of Sumerian religion
19. Features of akkadian empire
20. How did the economy expand during the akkadian empire in Mesopotamia?
21. Political and social structure and administration of the akkadian empire
22. Akkadian religion and its features
23. Features of Central asia’s nomadic groups
24. Neolithic culture in central asia
25. What was dark age in Greece?
26. When did the ancient Greece became a salve society ?
27. What was the population of the slaves in Greece in ancient period? Which were the
various sources of slave?
28. Various activities in economy performed by slaves in ancient Greece?
29. What was the status and condition of salves in the society of ancient Greece?
30. Ancient Greece –agriculture animal husbandary ,other allied productsa and agricultural
work
31. Trade in ancient Greece
32. Urbanization take place in ancient Greece
33. Form of politics and society in the ancient Greece?
34. Cultural evolution of hominids in the palaeolithic period
35. On the basis of the early Neolithic sites of the world. Discuss different aspects of an
economy
36.
37. Short note
a)palaeolithic religion
b)social organization in palaeolithoc period
c)Mesolithic tools
d) Mesolithic religion
e) social organization in Neolithic period
