History

The Making of a Global World

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.

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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.

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

Q 4.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 5.

Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]

Q 6.

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 7.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

Who discovered America ?

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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 16.

Colonialism during the late 19th century discuss.

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 24.

What is mass production and mass consumption?

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy.” Explain by giving an example.
Or
What was the importance of the Indian trade for the Britishers ?
Or
How did India play a crucial role in the nineteenth century world economy ? Explain with examples. [CBSE Comp. (O) 2008]

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 30.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 31.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

What was the importance of Silk Routes ?
Or
How did Silk Routes link the world ? Explain with three suitable examples. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Or
Explain any three characteristics of Silk Routes. [CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, Sept. 2010, 2012]
Or
Enumerate the importance of Silk Routes. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 36.

“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 37.

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

Q 38.

G-77 can be seen as a reaction to the activities of Bretton Woods Twins. Explain the statement with five arguments.  [CBSE 2013]

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 42.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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