History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

‘The indentured workers had discovered their own ways of surviving.” Explain. [CBSE 2013]
Or
How did the indentured labourers maintain their cultural identity in other part of the world ? [CBSE 2013]

Answer:

(i) Many of the indentured labourers escaped into the jungles.
(ii) They started celebrating festivals like Hosay in which both the Hindus and Muslims, who had migrated from India participated.
(iii) Many of the migrants joined or became part of the Rastafarianism, ie. a religious movement born out of black slums of Jamaica.
(iv) They started creating their own way of enjoyment like Chutney Music. The Chutney Music has beer, created by Indo- Caribbean people. The Music derives elements from Indian film songs.
(v) They developed a new culture which was a blend of the new culture and the traditional culture of the indentured labourers.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Name the movement launched by Gandhiji during the Great Depression of 1929.

Q 2.

Why were IMF and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development formed ?

Q 3.

What steps were taken by the British government to improve agriculture in West Punjab ?

Q 4.

What were the limitations of IMF and the World Bank ? Mention any two.

Q 5.

What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]

Q 6.

What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.

Q 7.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 8.

Mention the impact of the First World War on agricultural economies.

Q 9.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 10.

"Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange."Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2011]
Or
Assess with examples the contribution of food to the process of globalisation of the early periods. [CBSE 2012]

Q 11.

‘The First World War was modern industrial war’. Explain.
Or
Explain how the First World War was so horrible a war like none other before. [CBSE 2010 (0)]
Or
How far is it correct to say that "The First World Wax was the First modem industrial war”? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 12.

“The First World War was fought between two power blocs” Explain.

Q 13.

Write any three factors responsible for indentured labour migration from India. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2013]

Q 14.

Name any two Indian groups of bankers who financed export agriculture in Central and South-east Asia.

Q 15.

Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]

Q 16.

Before the arrival of outsiders most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage’. Give reasons.

Q 17.

Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.

Q 18.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 19.

Explain the impact of the Great Depression on the Indian economy. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]
Or
Explain the impact of the Great Depression on Indian farmers in the early twentieth century. [CBSE 2009 (F), Sept. 2012]

Q 20.

Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century ?
Or
Why did thousands of people flee away from Europe to America in the 19th century ? Give any three reasons. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 21.

What was the impact of industrialisation in Britain on Indian economy ?

Q 22.

What is globalisation ? [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012]

Q 23.

The pre-modem world shrank greatly in the 16th century”. Why ?

Q 24.

What was the impact of germs on the America's original inhabitants ?

Q 25.

Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in the 19th century ?

Q 26.

How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]

Q 27.

What was the main aim of the post-war international economic system in the world ?

Q 28.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.

Q 29.

Give two examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability.

Q 30.

Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]

Q 31.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]

Q 32.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 33.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 34.

Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]

Q 35.

Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.

Q 36.

What is difference between international momentary system and the Bretton Woods system?

Q 37.

What is G-77 ?

Q 38.

"European conquests produced many painful economic, social and ecological changes through which the colonised societies were brought into the world economy."Explain. [CBSE 2015]

Q 39.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 40.

What do you know about the Great Depression ? Explain the major factors responsible for the Great Depression. [CBSE 2008 (F), Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013]

Q 41.

What is NIF.O ?
Or
Why did Group 77 countries demand a New International Economic Order ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (D). Sept, 2010]
Or
Why did most of the developing countries organise themselves as a group the Group of 77 (G-77) ? [CBSE 2012)

Q 42.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 43.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the 17th century, choosing one example from Asia, and one from the America.

Q 44.

What was the importance of Silk Routes ?
Or
How did Silk Routes link the world ? Explain with three suitable examples. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Or
Explain any three characteristics of Silk Routes. [CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, Sept. 2010, 2012]
Or
Enumerate the importance of Silk Routes. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 45.

The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century.' Explain.

Q 46.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 47.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 48.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 49.

Name the disease which had terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and local economy of Africa during 1890's.

Q 50.

Name any four regions of India from where indentured workers came.