History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) Britain had a ‘trade surplus’ with India. Britain used this surplus to balance its trade deficits with other countries.

(ii) Britain’s trade surplus in India also helped pay the so-called ‘home charges’ that included private remittances home by 3ntish officials and traders, interest payments or. India’s external debt, and pensions of British officials in India.

(iii) in the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantations in mines anc in rood and railway construction projects around the world.

(iv) India also provided raw material to the developing industries of the world.

(v) India become a major market for the final goods: especially cotton textile.

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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.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 12.

‘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 13.

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

Q 14.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

"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 17.

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 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 27.

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 28.

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

Q 29.

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 30.

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

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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 34.

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

Q 35.

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

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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 38.

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

Q 39.

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

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.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 45.

What is G-77 ?

Q 46.

"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 47.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 48.

What are canal colonies'?

Q 49.

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 50.

How did Henry Ford revolutionise mass production in the US ? Explain. [CBSE 2012]