CBSE-Class-10-Social-Science-Assignment-History-Chapter-4-The-Making-of-a-Global-World

Class 10^thScience- The Making of a Global World

THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. ‘Globalisation’ today mainly refers to:

(a) Trade, migration of people in search of work

(b) Movement of capital

(d) Cultural links among world societies

2. Who were the first people to link the world in ancient times and why?

(a) Priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge and spiritual fulfilment

(b) Travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity, and spiritual fulfilment or to escape persecution

(d) All the above

3. The main reason why the world “shrank” in the 1500s is:

(a) Emergence of Europe as the centre of world trade

(b) China’s retreat into isolation and its reduced role in politics

(d) European sailors found a sea route to Asia, and also crossed the Atlantic and discovered America.

4. Which of the following statements is a true definition of what the economists identify as “flows”?

(a) Trade in goods (cloth or wheat), migration of people in search of employment and movement of capital for short-term or longterm investments over long distances

(b) Economic, social, cultural and technological exchanges

(d) All the above

5. The two evidences we have of India carrying on an active coastal trade in ancient times are :

(a) Indians carried goods, money, skills and ideas abroad

(b) An active coastal trade, as early as 3000 BC, linked Indus Valley Civilisation with present-day West Asia

(d) For more than a millennium, cowries (a form of Indian currency) found its way from Maldives, to China and East Africa.

6. The most powerful weapon, which the Spanish conquerors of America had, was:

(a) Superiority in conventional weapons

(b) Germs, such as those of small pox, proved a deadly killer and paved the way for conquest

(d) Both (b) and (c)

7. “Corn Laws” in Britain were scrapped because:

(a) The foodgrain prices had risen due to the demand for agricultural products by the growing population

(b) The landed groups had forced the government to restrict the import of corn

(d) All the above

8. Beside clearing land, what else was needed to increase food production in the world in the 19th century?

(a) Railways to link agricultural regions, harbours to be expanded or built for new cargoes

(b) Building homes and settlements for those working on land

(d) All the above

9. The number of people who migrated from Europe to America and Australia and other parts of the world in the 19th century was nearly

(a) 10 million from Europe and 100 million from all over the world.

(b) 20 million from Europe and about 150 million from all over the world

(d) The number is not certain, not enough Proof

10. The dramatic changes in global agricultural economy by 1890, were:

(a) Food no longer came from a nearby village but from thousands of miles away, grown by a migrant recently arrived

(b) Food was transported by railways recently built and ships manned by low-paid workers from southern Europe, Asia, and Africa

(d) All the above

11. Indentured labour means:

(a) Labour, which is marked by identification marks on their bodies

(b) A bonded labourer, under contract to work for a specific time for his employer, to pay off his passage to a new country or home

(d) All the above

12. The example of indentured labour’s migration from India illustrates:

(a) The two-sided nature of the 19th century world

(b) A world of faster economic growth as well as great misery, higher income for some and poverty for others

(d) All the above

13. In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on:

(a) Farms all around the world

(b) In factories, in Africa

(d) In the diamond and gold mines of South America

14. Indian nationalist leaders began opposing the system of indentured labour migration from the 1900s because:

(a) They considered it abusive, cruel and a new form of slavery

(b) Indian indentured workers were considered “coolies” in the Caribbean

(d) All the above.

15. Name one Nobel Prize winning writer who was a descendant of indentured labour migrants:

(a) Shivnaraine Chander Paul

(b) Ramnaresh Sarwan

16. Indentured labour system was abolished in India in:

17. The reasons why the inflow of fine Indian cotton into Britain and other countries declined in the 19th century were:

(a) Industrialisation and expansion of cotton manufacture in Britain

(b) Imposition of tariff on cloth imported into Britain to protect local industries

(c) British manufacturers began to seek overseas markets for their cloth, Indians faced stiff competition in international markets

(d) All the above

18. The British ‘trade surplus’ with India in the 19th century helped Britain:

(a) To balance its trade deficits with other countries

(b) It helped to pay home charges that included private remittances by British officials and traders

(d) All the above.

19. The foods introduced in Europe after Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the vast continent, later known as America, were:

(a) Spaghetti and noodles

(b) Potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes

(d) All the above.

20. The Europeans brought to Africa a devastating disease which destroyed

(a) Rinderpest, a disease carried by infected cattle, imported from British Asia to feed Italian soldiers

(b) 90 percent of cattle in Africa by 1897

(d) None of the above

21. The main destinations of Indian indentured emigrants were:

(a) Tea plantations in Assam

(b) The Caribbean Islands (Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam), Mauritius and Fiji

(d) All the above

22. The Second World War was fought between:

(a) America and Europe

(b) USA & England and Germany & Japan

(d) The USA, England and France, and Germany and Italy

23. From whom could a humble Indian peasant borrow capital for growing food and other crops for the world market?

(a) From Indian bankers like Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattu Kotai

(b) From traders and moneylenders like Hyderabadi Sindhis, who followed European colonisers into Africa?

(d) All the above

24. Which of the following statements support the view that the Second World War was unlike other wars?

(a) More civilians than soldiers died from war related causes

(b) Vast parts of Europe and Asia were devastated, several cities were destroyed by aerial bombardments and artillery attacks

(d) All the above

25. Post-war reconstruction was shaped by two crucial influences. They were:

(a) The US emerged as the dominant economic, political and military power in the western world

(b) The capitalist world collapsed

(d) Both (a) and (c)

26. The dramatic change in global agricultural economy occurred in west Punjab, India. The similarity was:

(a) Building of irrigation canals to transform semi-deserts into fertile agricultural lands for growing wheat and cotton for export

(b) Peasants from other parts of Punjab were settled in these canal colonies

(d) Importing labour from southern India

27. Trade in meat is chosen as an example of the role of technology in global agricultural economy because:

(a) Technology promoted better living conditions at home and support for imperialism abroad

(b) Frozen meat transported to Europe reduced the cost of shipping meat and made it affordable for the poor

(d) Live animals were shipped from America to Europe, then slaughtered on arrival, this led to meat being unfit to be eaten.

28. The decision-making in the IMF and the World Bank is controlled by:

(a) All the member-nations of these two banks

(b) Western industrial powers and the US’s right to veto over key IMF and World Bank decisions

(d) A majority vote by all the nations

29. Which of the following statements is true about the international monetary system?

(a) A system which links national currencies and monetary system

(b) A system based on fixed exchange rates, for example, Indian rupee was pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate

(d) All the above

30. The European colonies in Asia and Africa after Independence faced the problems of:

(a) Overpopulation and illiteracy

(b) Burden of overwhelming poverty and a lack of resources

(d) Dependence on the colonial powers for economic growth

QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION PAPERS

1. What is Rinderpest?

(a) a person (b) disease

2. Who made the best-cost cutting decision?

(a) Henry Ford (b) James Watt

3. Which among the following were considered as Allies Power?

(a) Britain, France, Russia

(b) Germany, Austria - Hungary and Ottomon Turk

(d) Britain, Japan and Russia

4. Which one of the following institutions was established in the Bretton Wood Conference?

(a) International Security Fund

(b) International Monetary Fund

(d) International Labour Organisation

5. Who adopted the concept of an assembly line to produce automobiles?

(a) T. Cuppola (b) V. S. Naipaul

6. Which among the following countries were considered as Axis Power during Second World War?

(a) Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy

(b) Britain, Germany, Russia

(d) Britain, France, Russia and the US

7. Which one of the following did not travel along the silk routes in the pre-modern world?

(a) Christian missionaries (b) Traders

8. Which one of the following is a Nobel Prize winning writer who is a descendent of indentured labour from India?

(a) Salman Rushdie (b) V. S. Naipaul

9. Which of the following West-Indies cricketers trace their roots to indentured labour migrants from India?

(a) Vivian Richards and Gary Sobers

(b) Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo

(d) Brian Lara and Courtney Walsh

10. What is El Dorado in Sourth America?

(a) It was the place where Columbus landed

(b) Where silver mines were located

(d) A famous slave market

11. Which of the following statements is not true of mass production?

(a) Lowered cost and prices of goods

(b) Stress free working

(d) Assembly line production

12. The introduction of which of the following crops led to European poor to eat better and live longer?

(a) Potato (b) Spaghetti

13. Nineteenth century ‘indenture’ has often been described as

(a) Forced conscription

(b) New system of slavery

14. In which one of the following cities did the European powers meet in 1885 to divide Africa between themselves?

(a) London (b) New York

15. Which one of the following countries has an effective right of veto over IMF and World Bank?

(a) India (b) the USA

16. ‘Silk Route’ refers to

(a) Network of routes connecting China and Rome

(b) Network of routes connecting India and Rome

(d) Network of routes connecting Asia with Europe and Northern Africa

17. Most Indian indentured workers came from present regions of

(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Bihar

(d) All the above

18. Which of the following allowed the British Government to restrict the import of corn?

(a) Food Act (b) Corn Act

19. Which of the following was the most powerful weapon used by Spainsh to conquer America?

(a) Atom Bomb (b) Navy

20. From which century China is said to have restricted overseas contacts and retreated into isolation?

(a) 14th (b) 15th

21. From which one of the following countries did Britian borrow large sums of money during first World War?

(a) United States of America

(b) Russia (c) Japan

(d) Germany

22. What is the name of the routes linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa?

(a) Asian routes (b) Silk routes

23. People’s livelihoods and local economy of which one of the following was badly affected by the disease named Rinderpest?

(a) Asia (b) Europe

24. Who among following discovered the continent of America?

(a) Vasco da Gama (b) Ferdinand Magellan

(d) Copernicus

25. Which one of the following countries passed Corn Laws to restrict the import of corn?

(a) India (b) France

26. Which one of the following crops was not known to our ancestors until about five centuries ago?

(a) Potato (b) Rice

27. Why did the wheat price in India fall down by 50 per cent between 1928 and 1934?

(a) Due to less production

(b) Due to floods

(d) Due to droughts

28. Which was the main destination of Indian indentured migrants?

(a) Africa (b) Australia

(d) All the above places

29. Which one of the following was the world’s first mass produced car?

(a) ‘T’ model car (b) Maruti car

30. The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference was held at Breten Woods in (USA) in the year.

(a) 1942 (b) 1943

31. Who among the following was a well-known pioneer of mass production?

(a) Jamshedji Tata (b) G.D. Birla

32. According to which famous economist, Indian gold exports promoted global economic recovery?

(a) Paul Wood (b) John Maynard Keynes

33. Which among the following is referred to as the ‘Bretton Woods twins’?

(a) The IMF and the World Bank

(b) The IMF and the WTO

(d) None of the above

34. In which of the following years Rinderpest arrived in Africa?

(a) 1880 (b) 1882 (c) 1876 (d) 1885

35. Which is the third type of movement identified by the economists of 19th century?

(a) Flow of trade (b) Flow of capital

36. In which of the following years global agricultural economy had taken shape?

(a) By 1870 (b) By 1888

37. Which one of the following was experienced during Great Depression of 1929?

(a) Increase in production and income

(b) Increase in employment and trade

(d) All the above

38. What were the “Corn Laws”?

(a) Laws to restrict the export of corn

(b) Laws to restrict the import of corn

(d) None of the above

39. Which of the following did not take part in the First World War?

(a) France (b) Germany

40. Chutney music was popular in

(a) Trinidad (b) Canada

41. When did the global agricultural economy start?

(a) 1894 (b) 1890

42. Which of the following diseases proved a deadly killer for the people of America?

(a) Cholera (b) Small pox

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What role did Silk Route play between the Chinese and the Romans?

2. Explain how food habits are good indicators of globalisation.

3. Describe in a few words how Europe changed at the end of the eighteenth century.

4. Who were the indentured labour? Which states of India produced the largest number of indentured labour?

5. Describe some technological developments of the nineteenth century that affected industrial growth.

6. What was the new system of slavery in the nineteenth century?

7. What role did the USA play in the First World War?

8. How was the USA able to recover from the post– World War economic crisis?

9. Describe how the Great Depression spread from USA to other countries of the world.

10. Write a short note on the effects of the Second World War.

11. What is the role of the World Bank?

12. How far was the Bretton Woods system successful?

13. Briefly summarise the two lessons learned by the economists and politicians from the post-war economic experience.

QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION PAPERS

1. Explain the three types of flows within the international economic exchanges during 1815- 1914.

2. Define the term ‘trade surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain?

3. How did the First World War change the economic life of the people in Britain? Explain.

4. Explain the two factors responsible for the Great Depression in the world in 1929.

5. What is Group-77? Why did Group-77 countries demand a New International Economic Order? Explain.

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?

6. Give two examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability.

Explain with examples how technology helped in solving problems of food availability throughout the world in the 19th century.

7. Describe briefly the effects of Rinderpest in African in the 1980s.

8. How was the food problem solved in Britain after the scrapping of Corn Laws. Explain.

9. Explain how the First World War was so horrible as war like none other before.

10. What were the main reasons for the attraction of Europeans to Africa?

11. What was the impact of technology on food availability. Explain with the help of examples.

12. Explain the effects of British government’s decision to abolish the Corn Lows.

13. Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America.

14. Why did the European employers find it difficult to recruit labour in Africa? Give two methods they used to recruit and retain labour.

15. What was the Corn Law? Why was the Corn Law abolished? What was the result of the abolishing of Corn Law?

16. What is G-77? What were its demands?

17. The testimony of an indentured labourer

Extract from the testimony of Ram Narain Tewary, an indentured labourer who spent ten years on Demerara in the early twentieth century.

...... in spite of the best efforts, I could not properly

do the works that were allotted to me ...... in a

few days I got my hands bruised all over and I

could not go to work for a week for which I was

prosecuted and sent ot jail for 14 days ...... new

emigrants find the tasks allotted to them extremely

heavy and cannot complete them in a day ......

Deductions are also made from wages if the work

is considered to have been done unsatisfactorily.

Many people cannot therefore earn their full

wages and are punished in various ways. In fact,

the labourers have to spend their period of

indenture in great trouble ....’

(i) What happened to the worker in a few days of joining work?

(ii) What happened to him when he was not able to complete the work allotted to him?

(iii) How were the workers punished when the work was considered to have been done unsatisfactorily?

18. What is meant by ‘Trade Surplus’? Why did Britain have a trade surplus with India?

19. Why did thousands of people flee from Europe to America in the 19th century? Give any three reasons.

20. Write any three factors responsible for indentured labour migration from India.

21. What is meant by the Bretton Woods system? Explain.

22. Explain any three characteristics of the Silk routes.

23. What was Rinderpest? How did Rinderpest change the economy of the African society?

24. Explain three major features of global agricultural economy that had taken shape towards the close of nineteenth century.

25. Mention the three types of movements or flows within the international economy exchange in the 19th century.

26. Nineteenth century indenture has heen described as a new system of slavery. Explain any three reasons.

27. What role did technology play in shaping the nineteenth century world?

28. How did Britain’s trade surplus from India help her to balance its trade deficits?

29. Explain the effect of the death of men of working age in Europe because of the First World War?

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What is globalisation? Explain.

2. Trace the origin of Silk Route and its significance.

3. How is culture a great agent of globalisation? Explain with example.

4. Explain how Europe was able to leap ahead of other continents by the 18th century.

5. Discuss why the Europeans were motivated to establish colonies.

6. Discuss one of the important causes and effects of the development of global agriculture.

7. Describe the historical transformation of China and India in the nineteenth century.

8. What were the effects of colonialism on Indian agricultural export in the nineteenth century?

9. Explain how the world was transformed after the World War (1914-1918).

10. What were the immediate effects of the World War on European agriculture?

11. Trace the different stages of development of the assembly line production.

12. Who profits from jute cultivation according to the jute growers’ lament? Explain.

13. Write down important causes and effects of the Second World War.

14. Discuss some important features of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

15. List some positive outcomes or effects of the Bretton Woods institutions.

QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION PAPERS

1. Describe in brief the world economic conditions of the post-First World War period.

2. Explain any four causes of the Great Depression.

3. What was rinderpest? State any four effects of the coming of rinderpest in Africa?

4. Explain the three types of flows within international economic exchange by giving any one example each.

5. What was the impact of the Great Depression of 1929 on the Indian economy?

6. Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain’s economy.

7. What was the impact of the First World War on the socio-economic conditions of the world? Write four points.

8. How did the global transfer of disease in the premodern world help in the colonisation of the Americas?

9. What was the role of technology in transforming the 19th century world? Explain with an example.

10. Enumerate the importance of Silk Routes.

11. What do you know about Great Depression? Write any two causes of it.

12. Why 19th Century indenture has been described as a ‘new system of slavery’? Explain.

13. Explain any four measures adopted by America for post war recovery.

14. How far is it correct to say that “The First World War was the first modern industrial war.” Explain.

15. “The indentured labour gave rise to a new culture in the Carribean islands”. Justify this statement with any four suitable examples.

16. Define the term ‘trade surplus’? How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain?

17. What were ‘Corn Laws’? How did the abolition of ‘corn laws’affect the people of England?

18. The Economic Depression of 1929 proved less grim for urban India. Explain with 4 examples.

19. 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.

20. Discuss the impact of First World war on the world’s economy.

21. Discuss the factors that led to the end of Bretton Woods system and the beginning of globalization. formative Assessment

The Making of a Global World

Class 10thScience- The Making of a Global World

Class 10^thScience- The Making of a Global World