NCERT · Class 11
NCERT Class 11 History: Chapter List and Official PDFs
All 7 chapters of the NCERT Class 11 History textbook(s), with the section headings of each chapter and a link to the official PDF on ncert.nic.in. Open a chapter to see what it covers.
7 chapters
Themes in World History
Chapter 1: Writing and City LifeI Early Societies
- Mesopotamia and its Geography
- The Significance of Urbanism
- The Development of Writing
- Urbanisation in Southern Mesopotamia: Temples and Kings
- A Trading Town in a Pastoral Zone (Mari)
- Excavating Mesopotamian Towns
- Cities in Mesopotamian Culture
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay) and Timeline
Chapter 2: An Empire Across Three ContinentsII Empires
- Introduction (Roman empire, Mediterranean world)
- The Early Empire
- The Third-Century Crisis
- Gender, Literacy, Culture
- Economic Expansion
- Controlling Workers
- Social Hierarchies
- Late Antiquity
- Events timeline and Exercises
Chapter 3: Nomadic EmpiresII Empires
- Introduction
- Social and Political Background
- The Career of Genghis Khan
- The Mongols after Genghis Khan
- Social, Political and Military Organisation
- Yasa
- Conclusion: Situating Genghis Khan and the Mongols in World History
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay)
Chapter 4: The Three OrdersIII Changing Traditions
- Introduction (historians of feudalism; Marc Bloch)
- An Introduction to Feudalism
- France and England
- The Three Orders
- The Third Order: Peasants, Free and Unfree
- Factors Affecting Social and Economic Relations
- A Fourth Order? New Towns and Townspeople
- The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century
- Political Changes
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay)
Chapter 5: Changing Cultural TraditionsIII Changing Traditions
- Introduction (the idea of the 'Renaissance')
- The Revival of Italian Cities
- Universities and Humanism
- Artists and Realism
- The First Printed Books
- A New Concept of Human Beings
- Debates within Christianity
- The Copernican Revolution
- Was there a European 'Renaissance' in the Fourteenth Century?
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay)
Chapter 6: Displacing Indigenous PeoplesIV Towards Modernisation
- Introduction
- European Imperialism
- North America
- Australia
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay)
Chapter 7: Paths to ModernisationIV Towards Modernisation
- Introduction (East Asia)
- Japan
- China
- The Story of Korea
- Two Roads to Modernisation
- Exercises (Answer in Brief; Short Essay)
- Conclusion (whole book: Timelines I-IV)
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