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.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 13.

‘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 14.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 15.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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]

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

Who discovered America ?

Q 24.

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 25.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

What is G-77 ?

Q 32.

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 33.

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

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

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

Q 36.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 37.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 43.

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?

Q 44.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

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 ?

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

Name some of the important food items which travelled from far away places to India.

Q 50.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?