CBSE History Class 11 Syllabus
Course Structure
| S.No. | Units | Marks |
| 1. | Introduction to World History | |
| Section A: Early Societies | 15 | |
| 2. | Introduction | |
| 3. | From the beginning of time | |
| 4. | Early Cities | |
| Section B: Empires | 20 | |
| 5. | Introduction | |
| 6. | An empire across three continents | |
| 7. | Central Islamic lands | |
| 8. | Nomadic Empires | |
| Section C: Changing Traditions | 20 | |
| 9. | Introduction | |
| 10. | Three orders | |
| 11. | Changing cultural traditions | |
| 12. | Confrontation of cultures | |
| Section D: Paths to Modernization | 20 | |
| 13. | Introduction | |
| 14. | The Industrial Revolution | |
| 15. | Displacing indigenous People | |
| 16. | Paths to modernization | |
| Map work (units 1-16) | 5 | |
| Project Work | 20 | |
| 100 | ||
1. Introduction to World History
Section A: Early Societies
2. Introduction
3. From the Beginning of Time
Focus: Africa, Europe till 15000 BC
- (a) Views on the origin of human beings.
- (b) Early societies.
- (c) Historians’ views on present-day hunting-gathering societies.
4. Early Cities
Focus: Iraq, 3rd millennium BC
- (a) Growth of towns.
- (b) Nature of early urban societies.
- (c) Historians’ Debate on uses of writing.
Section B: Empires
5. Introduction
6. An Empire across Three Continents
Focus: Roman Empire, 27 B.C to A.D 600.
- (a) Political evolution
- (b) Economic expansion
- (c) Religion
- (d) Late Antiquity.
- (e) Historians’ views on the institution of Slavery.
7. Central Islamic Lands
Focus: 7th to 12th centuries
- (a) Polity
- (b) Economy
- (c) Culture.
- (d) Historians’ viewpoints on the nature of the crusades.
8. Nomadic Empires
Focus: the Mongol, 13th to 14th century
- (a) The nature of nomadism.
- (b) Formation of empires.
- (c) Conquests and relations with other states.
- (d) Historians’ views on nomadic societies and state formation.
Section C: Changing Traditions
9. Introduction
10. Three Orders
Focus: Western Europe, 13th-16th century
- (a) Feudal society and economy.
- (b) Formation of states.
- (c) Church and Society.
- (d) Historians’ views on decline of feudalism.
11. Changing Cultural Traditions
Focus on Europe, 14th to 17th century.
- (a) New ideas, and new trends in literature and arts.
- (b) Relationship with earlier ideas
- (c) The contribution of West Asia.
- (d) Historians’ viewpoints on the validity of the notion ‘European Renaissance’.
12. Confrontation of Cultures
Focus on America, 15th to 18th century.
- (a) European voyages of exploration.
- (b) Search for gold; enslavement, raids, extermination.
- (c) Indigenous people and cultures – the Arawaks, the Aztecs, the Incas.
- (d) The history of displacements.
- (e) Historians’ viewpoints on the slave trade.
Section D: Paths to Modernization
13. Introduction
14. The Industrial Revolution
Focus on England, 18th and 19th century.
- (a) Innovations and technological change
- (b) Patterns of growth.
- (c) Emergence of a working class.
- (d) Historians’ viewpoints, Debate on ‘Was there an Industrial Revolution?’
15. Displacing Indigenous People
Focus on North America and Australia, 18th-20th century.
- (a) European colonists in North America and Australia.
- (b) Formation of white settler societies.
- (c) Displacement and repression of local people.
- (d) Historians’ viewpoints on the impact of European settlement on indigenous population.
16. Paths to Modernization
Focus on East Asia, late 19th and 20th century.
- (a) Militarization and economic growth in Japan.
- (b) China and the Communist alternative.
- (c) Historians’ Debate on the meaning of modernization
17. Map Work on Units 1-16