MHI 01 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES
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Assignment 2020-21
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any
five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections 'A' and 'B'. You
have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words
each. All questions carry equal marks.
Section - A
1. Analyse the society and economy of pastoral nomads.
2. Discuss the pattern of trade of Egyptian and Harappan civilizations.
3. Explain the political structure under the Roman Republic.
4. Discuss in brief the economy and polity in the region of South Africa.
5. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each:
i) Beginning of agriculture
ii) Writing in Harappan Civilization
iii) Darius I
iv) The Mongol Empires
Section - B
6. Write a note on the religious tradition in the Late Roman Empire.
7. Analyze the conditions of different kinds of cultivators in a manor.
8. Give a brief account of textile production in Asia and Europe.
9. Critically examine the factors that gave birth to Protestantism.
10. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each:
i) Migration and urbanism
ii) Towns as centres of trade
iii) Use of gunpowder
iv) Family and the system of inheritance in medieval Europe
