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
- Iraq, 3rd millennium BCE
- 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
- Roman Empire, 27 BCE to 600 CE
- 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 Mongol, 13th to 14th century
- 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
- Western Europe 13th – 16th century
- 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
- Europe 14th-17th century
- 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
- North America and Australia, 18th to 20th century
- 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
- East Asia, late 19th to 20th century
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
