History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) With industrialisation, the British cotton manufacturers began to expand and industrialists pressurised the government to restrict the cotton imports, and protect the local industries. Tariffs were imposed on doth imports into Britain. Consequently, the inflow of fine Indian cotton began to decline.

(ii) From the early nineteenth century. British manufacturers also began to search the overseas markets for their cloth.

(iii) The British machine-made textile products started giving a tough competition to the Indian textile industry at home.

So there was a decline in the share of cotton textiles from some 30 per cent around 1800 to 15 per cent by 1815. By the 1870s, this proportion had dropped to below 3 percent.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 3.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

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

Q 8.

Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]

Q 9.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 13.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 14.

Who discovered America ?

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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 20.

What were the main sources of attraction for Europeans to come to Africa in the late nineteenth century ? How did they exploit their resources ? [CBSE 2010 (F)]

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

‘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)]
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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 24.

Name the technology which enabled the transportation of perishable foods over.

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

What is G-77 ?

Q 27.

What were the crucial influences that shaped post-war ( II World War) reconstruction?

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 33.

What was the impact of the spread of rinderpest or the cattle plague on the African people ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (O)]
Or
How did rinderpest change .the economy of the African society ?  [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]
Or
Explain the social impact of introduction of rinderpest in Africa.
Or
Describe briefly the effects of rinderpest in Africa in the 1890's. [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012, 2014]

Q 34.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 35.

By 1890, a global agricultural economy had taken shape.' Explain by giving example.
Or
Describe any three changes in the global agricultural economy after 1890. [CBSE 2014]

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 38.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 39.

Till the 1870's meat was an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European poor”. Give reason.

Q 40.

How rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880's ?      [CBSE 2014]

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

"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 46.

Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.

Q 47.

Explain the three types of movements or flows within international economic exchange. Find one example of each type of flow which involved India and Indians, and write a short account of it.

Q 48.

Explain the impacts of scrapping of the Corn Law. [CBSE Sept, 2010, 2014]
Or
What was the result of the abolishing of Corn Laws? [CBSE Sept, 2010, 2012]

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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