History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) Food and other products : Food and Other products started flowing from far away places. It was no longer grown by a peasant tilling his own land, but by an agricultural worker, perhaps recently arrived, who was now working on a large farm that only a generation ago. had perhaps been a forest.
(ii) Infrastructure : The food and other products being transported by railways bud: for that very purpose and by ships which were increasingly manned in these decades by low paid workers from southern Europe Asia Africa and the Caribbean Islands.
(iii) Raw materials : Indian farmers were producing raw cotton and other farm products to British industry. World trade between 1820 and 1914 multiplied about 25 to 40 times.
(iv) Scrapping of Corn Law : The scrapping of the Corn Laws laid the foundation of free trade. Now food could be imported or exported into Britain freely.
(v) Commercialisation of agriculture in colonies: The imperial countries took various steps to commercialise agriculture in their colonies. For example. British government built a network of irrigation canals to transform semi desert waste land of West Punjab into fertile agricultural land.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

Why were the Corn Laws scrapped ? Explain any three reasons.[CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, 2009 (F), Sept. 2011]

Q 5.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement ? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2011]

Q 6.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 7.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

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.

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

Q 10.

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 11.

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

Q 12.

Who discovered America ?

Q 13.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

What is G-77 ?

Q 16.

What is mass production and mass consumption?

Q 17.

Colonialism during the late 19th century discuss.

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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 21.

Name the countries involved in the First World War.

Q 22.

How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

Why was there a need for clearing lands in Britain during the nineteenth century ? Explain any three reasons.
[CBSE Comp. (D) 2008]

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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 28.

What were the factors which were responsible for the end of the Bretton Woods system ?

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 33.

Mention any two factors which were responsible for price rise of food grains in Britain in the late 18th century.

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 36.

What is the meaning of ‘cultural fusion’? Give two examples.

Q 37.

"The First World War was the first modern industrial war". Justify the answer.

Q 38.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 44.

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 45.

“The example of indentured labour migration from India and other parts of the world illustrates the two-sided nature of the 19th century"world.” Explain by giving examples.
Or
Why 19th century indentured has been described as a ‘new system of slavery’ ? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2012, 2014]

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

Explain the consequences of the Second World War.
Or
Describe in brief the destruction caused during the Second World War. [CBSE 2010 (O), Sept. 2012]

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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