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Name the army founded by Garibaldi during the unification of Italy.

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  1. Black shirts

  2. Brown shirts

  3. Red shirts

  4. Red army

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In 1867, Garibaldi led an army of volunteers known as Red shirts to Rome to fight the last obstacle to the unification of Italy, the Papal States where a French garrison was stationed. 

Who is the Prophet of the unification of Italy?

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  1. Mazzini

  2. Napoleon Bonaparte

  3. Count Cavour

  4. Robespierre

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Mazzini is called 'Prophet of Italian Unification'. He established Young Italy movement. He preached the idea that Italian unification can only be possible with the foreign help and Austria is the biggest obstacle to unification.

The Prime Minister of Sardinia, who was responsible for the unification of Italy was ________.

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  1. Garibaldi

  2. Count Cavour

  3. Otto von Bismarck

  4. Mazzini

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Chief Minister Cavour who led the movement to unify the regions of Italy was neither a revolutionary nor a democrat. Like many other wealthy and educated members of the Italian elite, he spoke French much better than he did Italian. Through a tactful diplomatic alliance with France engineered by Cavour, Sardinia-Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces in 1859.

The first English factory in India was established at ____________.

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  1. Bombay

  2. Surat

  3. Hooghly

  4. Calcutta

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Correct Option: B

The Britishers set up colonies along the ______ coast of America.

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  1. Western

  2. Gulf

  3. Pacific

  4. Eastern

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Correct Option: D

The ______ established a 'seaborne empire' over the Indian ocean.

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  1. Dutch

  2. British

  3. Portuguese

  4. French

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Correct Option: C

Brazil was a colony of ______.

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  1. England

  2. Spain

  3. Portugal

  4. France

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Correct Option: C

The people of Netherlands are called ______.

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  1. Portuguese

  2. Dutch

  3. French

  4. English

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Correct Option: B

_______ was colonized by the Dutch.

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  1. India

  2. Indonesia

  3. Vietnam

  4. Sri Lanka

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Correct Option: B

Which of the colonial powers brought the dreadful disease of Rinderpest to Africa ?

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  1. Spain

  2. France

  3. Germany

  4. Italy

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Italy brought the dreadful disease of Rinderpest to Africa. There was a large scale infection in Africa that caused major changes to animal life. Rinderpest entered in 1887 at Massawa from Indian cattle for the Italian army. Rinderpest swept from the Horn of Africa west to the Atlantic and south to the Cape of Good Hope. Ethiopia lost 95% of their cattle and most of the human population starved to death.