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The Making of the Global World (Class X)

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Who discovered America?

  1. Marco Polo

  2. Vasco de Gama

  3. Ferdinand Magellan

  4. Amerigo Vespucci

  5. Christopher Columbus


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the silk routes?

a. Several silk routes have been identified by historians that lay over land and sea. b. Silk routes are known to have existed since before the Christian era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century. c. Chinese pottery, textiles, gold and silver travelled from China and spices from India and Southeast Asia to Europe.

  1. a, b and c

  2. a and b

  3. a only

  4. b only

  5. c only


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as both these statements are correct.

Ireland’s poorest peasants were so dependent on which of the following common foods brought from America that when disease destroyed its crop in the mid 1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation?

  1. Corn

  2. Tomato

  3. Potato

  4. Soya

  5. Sweet potatoes


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Which of the following proved to be the most effective tool in the colonising of America by the Europeans?

  1. Superior firepower

  2. Gifts of luxurious textiles

  3. Small pox germs

  4. Intermarriage with the natives

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Which of the following two countries were among the world's richest and were also pre-eminent in Asian trade until the eighteenth century?

  1. Siam and Tonkin

  2. China and Siam

  3. India and Siam

  4. India and China

  5. India and Burma


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. India and China were among the world's richest and were also pre-eminent in Asian trade until the eighteenth century.

Which of the following is correct about corn laws?

  1. They prohibited export of corn grown in Britain.

  2. They restricted import of corn in Britain.

  3. They prohibited growing corn in Britain.

  4. They restricted sale of corn to only the upper classes.

  5. They established high taxes for corn grown in Britain.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as the food grain prices had gone up and landed groups pressurised the government to prohibit the import of corn into Britain.

Which of the following was/were extracted from mines located in present day Peru and Mexico which enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia?

  1. Diamonds

  2. Silver

  3. Coal

  4. Aluminium

  5. Iron


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Where were the canal colonies established by the British government?

  1. East Punjab

  2. West Punjab

  3. West Bengal

  4. Jammu and Kashmir

  5. Rajasthan


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Where did the European powers meet in 1885 to complete the carving up of Africa between them?

  1. London

  2. Paris

  3. Barcelona

  4. Antwerp

  5. Berlin


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as the big European powers met in Berlin in 1885 to complete the carving up of Africa between them.

El Dorado, the fabled city of gold, was believed to be in

  1. Europe

  2. Southeast Asia

  3. North America

  4. South America

  5. Caribbean


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Many expeditions set out for searching El Dorado, the fabled city of gold in South America.

Which of the following became accessible to most poor Europeans as a result of refrigerated ships?

  1. Milk

  2. Fruits

  3. Potatoes

  4. Meat

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as refrigerated ships carrying frozen meat, eggs and butter were accessible to the poor Europeans and brought some variety to their diet.

Which of the following countries became major food-grain exporters to Britain after the corn laws were scrapped in the mid-nineteenth century?

  1. New Zealand, Australia and America

  2. Russia, Australia and America

  3. France, Prussia and Russia

  4. France, Russia and America

  5. America, Russia and Prussia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as in Eastern Europe, Russia, America and Australia, lands were cleared and food production expanded to meet the British demand.

Which of the following countries took over some of the colonies held by Spain in Africa in the late 1890s?

  1. Britain

  2. Portugal

  3. Belgium

  4. Germany

  5. USA


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The US became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies, earlier held by Spain in Africa.

The local economy of which of the following was affected severely by the fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest in the 1890s?

  1. Australia

  2. New Zealand

  3. Africa

  4. India

  5. Britain


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. 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.

Which of the following was not one of the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants?

  1. Trinidad

  2. Guyana

  3. Mauritius

  4. Siam

  5. Fiji


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Siam or Thailand was not one of the main destinations of Indian indentured labour.

In which of the following places was the annual Muharram procession transformed into a riotous carnival called ‘Hosay’ (for Imam Hussain), in which workers of all races and religions joined?

  1. Fiji

  2. Jamaica

  3. Trinidad

  4. Guyana

  5. Malaysia


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer.

Which of the following Indian entrepreneurs abroad established flourishing emporia at busy ports worldwide, selling local and imported curios to tourists?

  1. Hyderabadi Sindhi traders

  2. Shikaripuri shroffs

  3. Nattukottai Chettiars

  4. All of the above

  5. Options 2 and 3


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as the Hyderabadi Sindhi traders established flourishing emporia at busy ports worldwide, selling local and imported curios to tourists.

Which of the following were exported from India to Britain in the nineteenth century?

a. Food grains b. Raw cotton c. Indigo d. Opium

  1. a and c

  2. a, b and c

  3. a, b and d

  4. b, c and d

  5. a, b, c and d


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as food grains, raw cotton and indigo (used as a textile dye) were exported to Britain in the nineteenth century.

Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton began to decline in the British market?

  1. The quality of Indian cotton declined due to diseased plants and it affected the demand.

  2. The British cotton manufacture expanded with industrialisation.

  3. British industrialists pressurised the government to restrict cotton imports and protect local industries.

  4. All of the above

  5. Both 2 and 3


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as both expansion of industries in Britain and industrialists' demand to restrict cotton imports caused a decline in inflow of Indian cotton in the British markets.

Which of the following countries was a part of the central powers during the first world war?

  1. Britain

  2. Russia

  3. Ottoman Turkey

  4. Portugal

  5. Spain


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey were the central powers.

Britain’s trade surplus in India helped pay the ‘home charges’. Which of the following is not included in 'home charges'?

  1. Private remittances home by British officials

  2. Private remittances home by British traders

  3. Interest payments on India’s external debt

  4. Pensions of British officials in India

  5. Interest payments on India’s trade deficit


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

No, as India's trade deficit was paid through the 'home charges'.

The axis powers in the second world war were

  1. Germany, Japan and Italy

  2. Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the US

  3. Britain, France, US and Italy

  4. Germany, Japan and Soviet Union

  5. Germany, Japan, Austria and Italy


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Germany, Japan and Italy were the axis powers.

Henry Ford, a car manufacturer, was a well-known pioneer of mass production. In which of the following places did the first assembly line car plant manufacture the T- Model Ford, the world’s first mass-produced car?

  1. Chicago

  2. New York

  3. Detroit

  4. Michigan

  5. Kansas


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The Ford Motors plant that produced the first assembly line car 'T-Model Ford' was in Detroit.

Which of the following are known as the Bretton Woods institutions?

a. World Health Organisation b. United Nations c. International Monetary Fund d. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

  1. a and b

  2. c and d

  3. a, b and c

  4. a and c

  5. b and d


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Bretton Woods conference established the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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