TREND ANALYSIS – LAST 5 YEARS (2021–2025)

🔹 Chapter 1: Rise of Nationalism in Europe

📌 Frequently Asked Areas:

• French Revolution & nationalism
• Treaty of Vienna (1815)
• German Unification (very repeated 5 marker)
• Role of Bismarck
• Romanticism
• Frankfurt Parliament (source based)
• Symbolism (Germania, Marianne)

📈 Trend:

✔ Every year at least 1 question (3 or 5 marks)
✔ Frequently appears in case study
✔ German Unification asked multiple times in different forms

🔥 HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:

1. Role of culture in nationalism (Romanticism + symbols)
2. Frankfurt Parliament – failure reasons
3. Comparison: Italy vs Germany unification
4. Role of Bismarck (as competency question)

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🔹 Chapter 2: Nationalism in India

📌 Frequently Asked Areas:

• Rowlatt Act
• Jallianwala Bagh
• Non-Cooperation Movement (withdrawal reason)
• Civil Disobedience Movement
• Salt March
• Role of different groups (peasants, women, business class)
• Gandhi-Irwin Pact
• Simon Commission (less but possible)

📈 Trend:

✔ Most weightage chapter
✔ Almost every year 5-mark question
✔ Civil Disobedience asked more than Non-Cooperation in recent years
✔ Case study very common

🔥 VERY HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:

1. Civil Disobedience Movement – features & significance
2. Participation of different social groups
3. Why Congress failed to achieve Hindu-Muslim unity
4. Why Non-Cooperation was withdrawn
5. Salt as symbol (competency based)

👉 This is the MOST IMPORTANT chapter.

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🔹 Chapter 3: Making of a Global World

Pre-Modern World (VERY IMPORTANT)

📌 Important Areas:

• Silk Routes
• Role of food travel (noodles, potatoes, etc.)
• Cultural exchange
• Spread of religion
• Early trade networks

✅ Most Expected Questions:

Q1. Explain how the Silk Routes linked the world. (3 or 5 marks)
Q2. How did food travel across countries? Explain with examples.
Q3. How did pre-modern trade help in cultural exchange?

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🔹 2️⃣ Conquest, Disease and Trade (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)

This section is now the MOST IMPORTANT because later topics are deleted.

📌 Key Areas:

• Discovery of America
• Role of Columbus
• European conquest
• Smallpox impact
• Slave trade
• Plantation system

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🔹 Chapter 4: Print Culture

📌 Frequently Asked Areas:

• Gutenberg press
• Print & Reformation
• Vernacular Press Act
• Print & women
• Print & nationalism
• Censorship by British

📈 Trend:

✔ Appears in case study often
✔ 3 mark common
✔ 5 mark occasionally
✔ Women and print repeated in new pattern

🔥 HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:

1. Print culture & growth of nationalism
2. Role of women in print
3. Vernacular Press Act
4. How print created public opinion

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🎯 OVERALL MOST EXPECTED 5 MARK QUESTIONS 2026

Print & Nationalism

Civil Disobedience Movement

Role of social groups in national movement

German Unification

Salt March significance

Impact of Globalisation

Print Culture & Nationalism