Question:
Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]
Answer:
It is a situation under which value of exports is more than imports. Britain had a ‘trade surplus’ because India was exporting food products to Britain which had less market value and it was importing finished goods which had higher market value.
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 was the main aim of the post-war international economic system in the world ?
Q 4.
“The First World War was fought between two power blocs” Explain.
Q 5.
Name the movement launched by Gandhiji during the Great Depression of 1929.
Q 6.
What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]
Q 7.
What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.
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.
Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?
Q 10.
Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in the 19th century ?
Q 11.
Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.
Q 12.
Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]
Q 13.
Define Rinderpest. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
Q 14.
What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?
Q 15.
Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.
Q 16.
Why were IMF and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development formed ?
Q 17.
The pre-modem world shrank greatly in the 16th century”. Why ?
Q 18.
Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]
Q 19.
What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?
Q 20.
Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.
Q 21.
India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Q 22.
Who discovered America ?
Q 23.
What was mass production ? Who was pioneer of mass production ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 24.
Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?
Q 25.
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 26.
What were the factors which were responsible for the end of the Bretton Woods system ?
Q 27.
Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.
Q 28.
What was the impact of germs on the America's original inhabitants ?
Q 29.
What were the limitations of IMF and the World Bank ? Mention any two.
Q 30.
Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.
Q 31.
What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?
Q 33.
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 34.
Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.
Q 35.
‘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 36.
Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.
Q 37.
Before the arrival of outsiders most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage’. Give reasons.
Q 38.
Why were European attracted to Africa in die late 19th century ? Give one reason.
Q 39.
What is the meaning of ‘cultural fusion’? Give two examples.
Q 40.
Name any two Indian groups of bankers who financed export agriculture in Central and South-east Asia.
Q 41.
Which was the world's first mass produced car?
Q 42.
Why were the Corn Laws scrapped ? Explain any three reasons.[CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, 2009 (F), Sept. 2011]
Q 43.
What is mass production and mass consumption?
Q 44.
Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Q 45.
Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century ?
Or
Why did thousands of people flee away from Europe to America in the 19th century ? Give any three reasons. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Q 46.
What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?
Q 47.
What steps were taken by the British government to improve agriculture in West Punjab ?
Q 48.
How rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880's ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 49.
Who was indentured labourer ?
Q 50.
How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?
