History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) Africa had abundant land and a relatively small population.
(ii) For centuries, land and livestock sustained African livelihoods. Agriculture and animal rearing was the main occupation of the people. Most of the villages and families were self-sufficient.
(iii) People rarely worked for a wage. There were few consumer goods that wages could buy.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

"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 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 9.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 10.

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 11.

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

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

What is G-77 ?

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 24.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

What are canal colonies' ?

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

Which two countries were among the world's richest until the 18th century ?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each.

Q 39.

What was mass production? Explain its impact on the world economy of earlier 20th century.

Q 40.

Define Rinderpest. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

The First World War was a war like no other before. Justify.

Q 43.

What was mass production ? Who was pioneer of mass production ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 44.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 45.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain.
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How did the First World War change the economic life of the people in Britain ? Explain. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
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Describe in brief the world economic conditions of the post First World War period. [CBSE 2010 (D), Sept. 2012, 2013]

Q 48.

Explain the role of technology in shaping the world economy of the 19th century. [CBSE 2010 (D)]
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What was the impact of technology on food availability ? Explain with the help of examples. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2014]
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What was the role of technology in transforming in the 19th century world ? Explain with an example. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

Who discovered America ?