The Making of the Global World (Class X)
Class 10 history quiz covering global interconnectedness through trade, colonization, migration, industrialization, and world wars from 15th to 20th centuries
Questions
Who discovered America?
- Marco Polo
- Vasco de Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Christopher Columbus
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.
- a, b and c
- a and b
- a only
- b only
- c only
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?
- Corn
- Tomato
- Potato
- Soya
- Sweet potatoes
Which of the following proved to be the most effective tool in the colonising of America by the Europeans?
- Superior firepower
- Gifts of luxurious textiles
- Small pox germs
- Intermarriage with the natives
- None of these
Which of the following two countries were among the world's richest and were also pre-eminent in Asian trade until the eighteenth century?
- Siam and Tonkin
- China and Siam
- India and Siam
- India and China
- India and Burma
Which of the following is correct about corn laws?
- They prohibited export of corn grown in Britain.
- They restricted import of corn in Britain.
- They prohibited growing corn in Britain.
- They restricted sale of corn to only the upper classes.
- They established high taxes for corn grown in 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?
- Diamonds
- Silver
- Coal
- Aluminium
- Iron
Where were the canal colonies established by the British government?
- East Punjab
- West Punjab
- West Bengal
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Rajasthan
Where did the European powers meet in 1885 to complete the carving up of Africa between them?
- London
- Paris
- Barcelona
- Antwerp
- Berlin
El Dorado, the fabled city of gold, was believed to be in
- Europe
- Southeast Asia
- North America
- South America
- Caribbean
Which of the following became accessible to most poor Europeans as a result of refrigerated ships?
- Milk
- Fruits
- Potatoes
- Meat
- All of the above
Which of the following countries became major food-grain exporters to Britain after the corn laws were scrapped in the mid-nineteenth century?
- New Zealand, Australia and America
- Russia, Australia and America
- France, Prussia and Russia
- France, Russia and America
- America, Russia and Prussia
Which of the following countries took over some of the colonies held by Spain in Africa in the late 1890s?
- Britain
- Portugal
- Belgium
- Germany
- USA
The local economy of which of the following was affected severely by the fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest in the 1890s?
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Africa
- India
- Britain
Which of the following was not one of the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants?
- Trinidad
- Guyana
- Mauritius
- Siam
- Fiji
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?
- Fiji
- Jamaica
- Trinidad
- Guyana
- Malaysia
Which of the following Indian entrepreneurs abroad established flourishing emporia at busy ports worldwide, selling local and imported curios to tourists?
- Hyderabadi Sindhi traders
- Shikaripuri shroffs
- Nattukottai Chettiars
- All of the above
- Options 2 and 3
Which of the following were exported from India to Britain in the nineteenth century?
a. Food grains
b. Raw cotton
c. Indigo
d. Opium
- a and c
- a, b and c
- a, b and d
- b, c and d
- a, b, c and d
Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton began to decline in the British market?
- The quality of Indian cotton declined due to diseased plants and it affected the demand.
- The British cotton manufacture expanded with industrialisation.
- British industrialists pressurised the government to restrict cotton imports and protect local industries.
- All of the above
- Both 2 and 3
Which of the following countries was a part of the central powers during the first world war?
- Britain
- Russia
- Ottoman Turkey
- Portugal
- Spain
Britain’s trade surplus in India helped pay the ‘home charges’. Which of the following is not included in 'home charges'?
- Private remittances home by British officials
- Private remittances home by British traders
- Interest payments on India’s external debt
- Pensions of British officials in India
- Interest payments on India’s trade deficit
The axis powers in the second world war were
- Germany, Japan and Italy
- Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the US
- Britain, France, US and Italy
- Germany, Japan and Soviet Union
- Germany, Japan, Austria and Italy
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?
- Chicago
- New York
- Detroit
- Michigan
- Kansas
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
- a and b
- c and d
- a, b and c
- a and c
- b and d