History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) Africa had abundant land and a relatively small population.
(ii) For centuries, land and livestock sustained African livelihoods. Agriculture and animal rearing was the main occupation of the people. Most of the villages and families were self-sufficient.
(iii) People rarely worked for a wage. There were few consumer goods that wages could buy.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

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 9.

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

Q 10.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

‘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 14.

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

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 18.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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 21.

Who discovered America ?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

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 27.

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 28.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

What is G-77 ?

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

The agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected by the Great Depression of 1929'. Give one reason.

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 47.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

The decision of MNCs to relocate production to Asian countries.

Q 50.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?