History

Get the complete class XI history curriculum here in detail!

Students who got admitted in class XI this academic year 2022-23 must have a complete syllabus to score well at the end. Here is the compiled history curriculum for the academic year 2022-23 as per the latest CBSE notification.  

Themes in world history: 

  • Writing and City Life 
    • Iraq, 3rd millennium BCE
      • Growth of towns
      • Historians’ Debate on uses of writing
      • Nature of early urban societies
  • An Empire across Three Continents
    • Roman Empire, 27 BCE to 600 CE
      • Political evolution
      • Religion-culture foundation
      • Economic Expansion
      • Historians’ views on the Institution of slavery
      • Late Antiquity
  • Nomadic Empires 
    • The Mongol, 13th to 14th century
      • The nature of nomadism
      • Conquests and relations with other states
      • Formation of empires
      • Historians’ views on nomadic societies and state formation
  • The Three Orders
    • Western Europe 13th – 16th century
      • Feudal society and economy
      • Church and society
      • Formation of state
      • Historians’ views on the decline of feudalism
  • Changing Cultural Traditions
    • Europe 14th-17th century
      • New ideas and new trends in literature and arts
      • Relationship with earlier ideas
      • The contribution of West Asia
      • Historians’ viewpoint on the validity of the notion ‘European Renaissance
  • Displacing Indigenous People
    • North America and Australia, 18th to 20th century
      • European colonists in North America and Australia
      • Displacement and repression of local people
      • Formation of White Settler societies
      • Historians’ viewpoint on the impact of European settlement on the indigenous population
  • Paths to Modernization
    • East Asia, late 19th to 20th century
      • China and the communist alternative
      • Militarization and economic growth in Japan
      • Historians’ Debate on the meaning of modernization

Few suggestive topics for class projects: 

  • Crusades: causes; rationale; events; outcomes; Holy Alliance
  • Facets of the Industrialization in the sixteenth- eighteenth centuries
  • Ancient History in depth: Mesopotamia
  • Contributions of Roman Civilization
  • Greek Philosophy and City-States
  • The spirit of Renaissance: Manifestation in art; Literature; Sculpture; Influence on Trading
  • Community; Social Fabric; Philosophy; Political Values; Rational Thinking; Existentialism
  • Different schools of thought – Realism: Humanism: Romanticism
  • Aspects of Development -South American States / Central American States
  • Piecing together the past of Genghis Khan
  • History of Aborigines – America /Australia
  • Myriad Realms of Slavery in ancient, medieval, and the modern world
  • Facets of Modernization – China /Japan/Korea