History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Answer:

A bonded labourer under contract to work for an employer tor a specific period of rime, to pay off a passage a new country or home. In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands o: Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantations, in mines and ill roads and railway construction projects around the world.
In India, indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised the return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer’s plantation.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 2.

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]
Or
Why did most of the developing countries organise themselves as a group the Group of 77 (G-77) ? [CBSE 2012)

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

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

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.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 15.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

Who discovered America ?

Q 26.

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

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.

‘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 29.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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 33.

‘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 34.

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

Q 35.

Name the countries which wore exporting food grains to Britain.

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

What is G-77 ?

Q 41.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 42.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 43.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 44.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

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 47.

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

Q 48.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.