HISTORY - The Making of a Global World

The Making of a Global World

Short Questions1. Where were Tamil indentured migrants sent? Answer: Ceylonthan and Malaya, 50. What was the use of...

Short Questions

1. Describe the role of technology in the transformation of the world in the nineteenth century. Answer: The making o...

2. What attracted the Europeans in Africa? Give any three reasons. Answer : Africa attracted Europeans for several re...

3. What were Corn Laws ? Why were these Laws abolished ? Answer : The Corn Laws were British trade laws to regulate t...

4. Give two examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability. Answer : Two examples from...

5. What was the impact of industrialisation in Britain on Indian economy ? Answer : 1. With industrialisation, the Bri...

6. ‘The First World War was modern industrial war’. Explain. OR Explain how the First World War was so horrible a war...

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

7. What is NIFO ? OR Why did Group 77 countries demand a New International Economic Order ? Explain. OR Why did mos...

8. Why did the developing countries organise the G-77? Give three reasons. Answer : The reasons for organising the G-7...

9. Why did Britain find it difficult to recapture the Indian market after the World War-I? Explain. Answer : In the a...

10. What was the role of Indian entrepreneurs abroad? Answer : Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiar were power...

11. In what ways were jute producers of Bengal affected by the economic crisis? Answer : There were several ways in w...

12. Which factors were responsible for the economic depression of 1929 ? Answer : The factors which were responsible...

13. How was the United States of America severely affected by the global economic depression? Explain. Answer : The G...

14. What are IMF and World bank also known as? Why did they shift their attention to the developing countries? Answer...

15. Write a short note on Sir Morton Stanley. Answer : Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a well-known journalist and explo...

16. What is the difference between fixed and floating exchange rates? Answer : A fixed exchange rate is a set excha...

17. What was the impact of colonisation on various colonies? Answer : The effects of colonisation on various colonies...

18. Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in England? Answer : Historically, fine cotton produced...

19. What were the main reasons for the attraction of Europeans to Africa? Answer : 1. Europeans were attracted to Af...

20. Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America. Answer : (...

21. Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century? OR Why did thousands of people flee away from...

22. “Economists of the 19th century identify three types of movements or ‘flows’ within international economic exchanges...

23. “India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy.” Explain by giving an example. OR What was th...

24. “India played a crucial role in the late 19th-century world economy”. Explain. Answer : (i) Britain had a ‘trad...

25. How did Europeans handle the problem of shortage of labour in Africa? Answer : Europeans dealt with the increas...

Long Answer Type Questions

1. 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 t...

2. ‘By 1890, a global agricultural economy had taken shape.’ Explain by giving example. OR Describe any three changes...

3. What do you mean by the terms 'mass produc tion' and 'mass consumption'? Answer : A significant aspect of the act...

4. Explain the impact of the Great Depression on the Indian economy. OR Explain the impact of the Great Depression on...

5. What were the results of 'the shrinking of the world from the sixteenth century onwards? Answer : The 'shrinking...

6. What do you know about the Great Depression? Explain the major factors responsible for the Great Depression. Answe...

7. "Indian trade had played a crucial role in the late nineteenth century world economy." Analyse the statement. Answ...

8. Explain three types of movements or flows within international economic exchange. Find one example of each type of fl...

8. ‘The indentured workers had discovered their own ways of surviving.” Explain. Or How did the indentured labourers...

9. Explain the consequences of the Second World War. OR Describe in brief the destruction caused during the Second Wor...

10. What was the importance of Silk Routes ? OR How did Silk Routes link the world ? Explain with three suitable examp...

11. Explain the role of technology in shaping the world economy of the 19th century. OR What was the impact of techno...

12. What was the impact of the Great Depression of 1929 on the post-war economy? Answer : The Great Depression start...

13. What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement ? Explain. Answer : The Bretton Woods Conference took place in the Ju...

14. Explain the impacts of scrapping of the Corn Law. OR What was the result of the abolishing of Corn Laws? Answe...

15. Describe the impact of Rinderpest on people's livelihood and local economy in Africa in the 1890s. Answer : In A...