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Session wise Curriculum:

The History home tutors follow the guidelines of respective boards and keep the syllabus of the NCERT and CBSE in mind while teaching the kids.The subject is being taught to students going along with the school syllabus given by different boards. Tentative session wise complete history course for class XI is as following:

Chapters/units 1-4

Introduction to World History
Section A: Early Societies
From the Beginning of Time
Focus: Africa, Europe till 15000 BC
- Views on the origin of human beings
- Early societies
- Historians' views on present-day hunting-gathering societies
Early Cities
Focus: Iraq, 3rd millennium BC

Growth of towns
Nature of early urban societies
Historians' Debate on uses of writing

Chapters/units 5-8

Section B: Empires
An Empire across Three Continents
Focus: Roman Empire, 27 B.C to A.D 600
- Political evolution
- Economic expansion
- Religion
- Late Antiquity
- Historians' views on the institution of Slavery
Central Islamic Lands
Focus: 7th to 12th centuries
- Polity
- Economy
- Culture
- Historians' viewpoints on the nature of the crusades
Nomadic Empires
Focus: the Mongol, 13th to 14th century
- The nature of nomadism
- Formation of empires
- Conquests and relations with other states
- Historians' views on nomadic societies and state formation

Chapters/units 9-12

Section C: Changing Traditions
Three Orders
Focus: Western Europe, 13th-16th century
- Feudal society and economy
- Formation of states
- Church and Society
- Historians' views on decline of feudalism
Changing Cultural Traditions
Focus on Europe, 14th to 17th century
- New ideas, and new trends in literature and arts
- Relationship with earlier ideas
- The contribution of West Asia
- Historians' viewpoints on the validity of the notion 'European Renaissance’

Chapters/Units covered: 13-16

Confrontation of Cultures
Focus on America, 15th to 18th century
- European voyages of exploration
- Search for gold; enslavement, raids, extermination
- Indigenous people and cultures - the Arawaks, the Aztecs, the Incas
- The history of displacements
- Historians' viewpoints on the slave trade
Section D: Paths to Modernization
The Industrial Revolution
Focus on England, 18th and 19th century
Focus on North America and Australia, 18th-20th century
Focus on East Asia, late 19th and 20th century
Map Work on Units 1-16