Q1. What role did the silk route play between the Chinese and the Romans?Silk Route
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Q2. Explain how food habits are good indicators of globalization.
Ans. The exchange of food crops and habits between different regions and their adoption by different societies was a good indicator of globalization.
Example: The Europeans benefited from the introduction of potatoes with good nutrients and health. Thousands perished in the 1840s during the Irish Potato Famine.
Q3. Describe in a few words how Europe changed at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Q4. Who were the indentured labourers? Which states of India produced the largest number of indentured labour?
Indian Indentured Labourers
Ans. Indentured labourers were bonded labourers who were transferable to any country on contract for a specific amount of wage and time. Most of the labourers were from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central India and certain districts of Tamil Nadu.
Q5. Describe some technological developments of the nineteenth century that affected industrial growth.
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Q6. What was the new system of slavery in the nineteenth century?
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Nineteenth-Century indenture has been described as a new system of slavery.
Explain any three points.
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Q7. How was the USA able to recover from the post–World War economic crisis?
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Q8. Describe how the Great Depression spread from the USA to other countries of the world.
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Q9. Write a short note on the effects of the Second World War.
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Q10. Briefly summarise the two lessons learned by the economists and politicians from the post-war economic experience.
Ans. In the post-war system two lessons learned by economists and politicians were:
Therefore, they aimed to establish a stable economy and provide full employment in the industrial nations through the Bretton Woods institutions, namely, the IMF and the World Bank.
Q11. How did silk routes link the world? Explain with three suitable examples.
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Explain any three characteristics of the Silk Route.
Ans. Pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant places were established by the Silk Routes.
Q12. “The First World War was fought between two power blocs.” Explain.
Ans: The First World War was fought from 1914 – 1918. On the one side were the Allies – Britain. France and Russia (later joined by the US): and on the opposite side were the Central Powers – Germany. Austria – Hungary and Ottoman Turkey.
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