All 33 World History questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2015 and 2024, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
1 of these 33 were set in more than one exam — the Commission reuses this topic, which is the argument for working through it rather than skimming it.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
The Mesopotamian civilization, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq, is regarded as the world's oldest; its Sumerian cities and cuneiform writing date from about 3500 BCE. The Egyptian (Nile), Indus Valley and Chinese civilizations came later.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted by France's National Assembly in August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. It proclaimed liberty, equality and the rights of all citizens.
Two Treatises of Government (1689) was written by the English philosopher John Locke. It rejects the divine right of kings. Locke argued that government rests on the consent of the governed. Its job is to protect natural rights to life, liberty and property. Thomas Hobbes wrote 'Leviathan' (1651). Rousseau wrote 'The Social Contract' (1762). Herbert Spencer wrote 'Social Statics'.
The Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, 1948–52) was announced by Secretary of State George Marshall in June 1947 and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in April 1948. Roosevelt had died in 1945, Eisenhower became President in 1953, and Wilson belonged to the First World War era.
The American War of Independence opened on 19 April 1775 at Lexington, where British regulars marching on Concord met the colonial militia — the 'shot heard round the world'. Boston saw the earlier Massacre of 1770 and Tea Party of 1773. Jamestown was the first English settlement (1607). Trenton was Washington's victory of December 1776.
Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors on 28 June 1919. The signatories were the foreign minister Hermann Müller and the transport minister Johannes Bell. They went only after the National Assembly voted to accept the terms. The war-guilt clause and the reparations that followed made the treaty a lasting grievance in Germany.
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. It began on 22 June 1941 along a front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. It tore up the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. The Germans failed before Moscow and were beaten at Stalingrad. This opened the eastern front that decided the Second World War.
The wheel is credited to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia, about 3500 BCE. They used it first as a potter's wheel and then on carts. Mesopotamia also gave the world cuneiform writing and the 60-based counting system. The Pythagoras theorem belongs to ancient Greece. Cyclopean masonry belongs to Mycenaean Greece. Stonehenge belongs to prehistoric Britain.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March 1918. It took Bolshevik Russia out of the First World War. It made peace with the Central Powers — Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. The cost was Poland, the Baltic provinces, Finland and Ukraine. It was annulled when Germany surrendered in November 1918.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov took the revolutionary alias Lenin, and under that name led the Bolsheviks to power in the October Revolution of 1917. Stalin was born Iosif Dzhugashvili and Trotsky was Lev Bronstein, while Alexander Kerensky headed the Provisional Government the Bolsheviks overthrew.
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See the printed book →The Commission set 33 World History questions across 10 papers between 2015–2024. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
Yes. 1 of these 33 were set in more than one exam, which is why they are worth working rather than reading. Each question here carries a badge showing how many sittings asked it.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 33 are in the book, in the same form.
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The questions are on screen rather than in a downloadable file, so they stay current and correct. The printed book has all 33 of these plus the rest of the General Knowledge section, and every buyer gets the whole thing online as well.
The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
| Exam | Year | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Director Youth Services | 2016 | 12 |
| Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2018 Mains Examinat | 2018 | 8 |
| Punjab Civil Services (Prelims) — General Studies | 2015 | 5 |
| One Hundred Eighteen Posts | 2017 | 2 |
| Seven Posts | 2016 | 2 |
| District Manager (Group-B) in Punjab State Warehousing Corporation Under the Dep | 2024 | 1 |
| Principal, Industrial Training Institute (Women) | 2024 | 1 |
| District Defence Services Welfare Officer | 2023 | 1 |
| Inspector, Cooperative Societies | 2022 | 1 |
| Assistant Town Planner | 2018 | 1 |