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Themes in World History
CBSE Class XI 2026–27 · seven prescribed themes
Writing and City Life
Irrigation and exchange supported cities such as Uruk in third-millennium BCE Iraq. Temples and palaces organised l…
Theme 2An Empire Across Three Continents
Rome connected territories across Europe, North Africa and western Asia through armies, provincial administration, …
Theme 3Nomadic Empires
Mongol power grew from mobile pastoral societies and steppe alliances. Temujin, later Genghis Khan, built a confede…
Theme 4The Three Orders
Medieval western Europe was often described through those who prayed, fought and worked. This idealised social mode…
Theme 5Changing Cultural Traditions
Urban life in parts of Europe supported Renaissance art and humanism from the fourteenth century. The Reformation c…
Theme 6Displacing Indigenous Peoples
European settlement in the Americas and Australia transformed Indigenous societies through land seizure, disease, w…
Theme 7Paths to Modernisation
Japan and China followed distinct paths through imperial pressure and political transformation. Meiji reforms reorg…
The course also includes timelines and map work. These original notes pair historical context with source-analysis prompts.