Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
(i) Before the discovery of the sea routes, America had been cut off from regular contact with the rest of the world for millions of years. But from the sixteenth century, its vast lands and abundant crops and minerals began to transform trade and lives everywhere.
(ii) Precious metals, particularly silver, from mires located in present day Peru and Mexico also enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia. Legends spread in seventeenth-century Europe about South America’s fabled wealth. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold
(iii) With the discovery of sea routes three types of movements or flows became prominent. i.c. the flow of goods, labour and capital.
Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.
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]
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Why did most of the developing countries organise themselves as a group the Group of 77 (G-77) ? [CBSE 2012)
‘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]
Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]
Explain the consequences of the Second World War.
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Describe in brief the destruction caused during the Second World War. [CBSE 2010 (O), Sept. 2012]
Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.
Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]
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.
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.
India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?
Name any two Indian groups of bankers who financed export agriculture in Central and South-east Asia.
Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.
Before the arrival of outsiders most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage’. Give reasons.
How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Explain what is referred to as the G-77 countries. In what ways can G-77 be seen as a reaction to the activities of the Bretton Woods twins?
What were the main reasons for the attraction of Europeans to Africa ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]
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)
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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]
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What methods were used by the European employers to recruit and retain the African labourers ?
What was mass production? Explain its impact on the world economy of earlier 20th century.