The Making of a Global World quiz

Which crop from the Americas became the staple food of the poor in Ireland?

The Great Depression began in:

The Bretton Woods conference was held in:

Rinderpest was a disease affecting:

The Berlin Conference of 1885 was held to:

'Hosay' is a carnival celebrated by Indian descendants in:

The IMF and the World Bank are called the:

Indentured labour migration from India was abolished in:

Which of the following were groups of Indian bankers and traders who financed export agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia?

The G-77 was a group of:

Explain how food travelled across the world in the pre-modern period, with two examples. (2 marks)

Why did the abolition of the Corn Laws change the pattern of agriculture in Britain? (2 marks)

What was the impact of smallpox on the people of the Americas? (2 marks)

How did refrigerated ships change the meat trade? (2 marks)

Why did indentured labourers agree to migrate? (2 marks)

How did indentured labourers create new cultural forms? (2 marks)

How did the First World War make the USA a creditor nation? (2 marks)

What was the impact of the Great Depression on India? (2 marks)

What was the role of the IMF and the World Bank? (2 marks)

Why did multinational corporations shift production to Asian countries from the 1970s? (2 marks)

The Irish potato famine of 1845-49 killed about 10 lakh people, and a similar number emigrated. If the population of Ireland was about 85 lakh in 1845, calculate the percentage who died or emigrated. (3 marks)

In 1890, the price of beef in Britain was 12 shillings per kg before refrigeration and 7 shillings after refrigerated ships brought cheaper meat (illustrative). Calculate the percentage fall in price. How did this help the poor? (3 marks)

A British cotton mill imported 1,000 bales of raw cotton from India at Rs 50 per bale and sold the cloth made from it in India for Rs 2,00,000. Calculate the value added in Britain. What does this show about colonial trade? (3 marks)

An indentured labourer signed a contract for 5 years and was paid Rs 6 per month. Calculate the total earnings over the contract. If deductions took 25% of his wages, calculate his net income. (3 marks)

During the Depression, US industrial production fell by about one-third between 1929 and 1932. If production was 300 units in 1929, calculate the production in 1932. How did this affect employment? (3 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantations, in mines, and in road and railway construction projects around the world. In India, indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer's plantation. Most Indian indentured workers came from the present-day regions of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, central India and the dry districts of Tamil Nadu. (i) What is indentured labour? (ii) Why did workers from these regions migrate? (iii) How was indentured labour described as a 'new system of slavery'? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. Until the nineteenth century, poverty and hunger were common in Europe. Cities were crowded and deadly diseases were widespread. Religious conflicts were common, and religious dissenters were persecuted. Thousands therefore fled Europe for America. Until the eighteenth century, China and India were among the world's richest countries. (i) Why did Europeans migrate to America? (ii) How did the discovery of the Americas help Europe? (iii) Why did China and India lose their pre-eminence? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest had a terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and the local economy. It moved west and south, reaching the Atlantic coast in 1892. Along the way rinderpest killed 90% of the cattle. The loss of cattle destroyed African livelihoods. (i) How did rinderpest reach Africa? (ii) How did it help the colonisers? (iii) Why did Africans earlier not want to work for wages? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. The Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1930s. During this period most parts of the world experienced catastrophic declines in production, employment, incomes and trade. Agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected. The fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods. (i) Give two causes of the Great Depression. (ii) Why were agricultural regions the worst affected? (iii) How did the Depression affect Indian peasants? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. The main aim of the post-war international economic system was to preserve economic stability and full employment in the industrial world. Its framework was agreed upon at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA. The conference established the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. (i) What were the two lessons learnt from the inter-war economic experience? (ii) What was the role of the IMF? (iii) Why did the Bretton Woods system fail to help developing countries? (5 marks)

Describe the pre-modern world and how trade, food and diseases connected different continents. Explain the impact of the conquest of the Americas. (6 marks)

Explain the three types of flows within the nineteenth-century world economy. Draw a flowchart and give examples of each. (6 marks)

Describe the impact of colonialism on Africa in the late nineteenth century, with reference to rinderpest and the labour market. (6 marks)

Explain the causes and effects of the Great Depression. How did it affect the Indian economy? Draw a flowchart of its causes. (6 marks)

Describe the post-war international economic order. Explain the role of the Bretton Woods institutions, decolonisation and the beginning of modern globalisation. (6 marks)