History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

What were the main reasons for the attraction of Europeans to Africa ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]

Answer:

(i) Europeans were attracted to Africa in search of valuable minerals like gold, coal, silver, etc.
(ii) They were attracted to Africa due to its vast resources of land.
(iii) They went to Africa hoping to establish plantations and mines.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 14.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

‘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 26.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

Who discovered America ?

Q 29.

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 30.

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

Q 31.

Name the countries which wore exporting food grains to Britain.

Q 32.

What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?

Q 33.

Why were European attracted to Africa in die late 19th century ? Give one reason.

Q 34.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 35.

Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?

Q 36.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 37.

‘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]

Q 38.

What were Corn Laws ? Why were these Laws abolished ? [CBSE 2009 (F) Sept. 2010, 2014]

Q 39.

Why did the European employers find it difficult to recruit labour in Africa ? Give two methods they used to recruit and retain labour. [CBSE 2011)
Or
Why was there a shortage of labour willing to work for wages in Africa in the 1890s ? How did Europeans try to recruit and retain labour ? Explain any two methods. [CBSE 2012]
Or
What methods were used by the European employers to recruit and retain the African labourers ?

Q 40.

How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

What is G-77 ?

Q 44.

"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 45.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 46.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 47.

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 48.

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

Q 49.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 50.

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