Tag: the making of a global world

Questions Related to the making of a global world

In the western world, modern cities grew with _______________.

  1. Colonisation

  2. Imperialism

  3. Communalism

  4. Industrialisation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Due to Industrialisation, many new industries came up, which provided jobs to thousands of people. To ensure the facilities like home to the workers of the industries many new cities grew around the industries with all the necessary and modern amenities

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what fueled the increase in global trade?

  1. The export of cheap labor in the form of slaves from Africa

  2. The active participation of the Chinese government in expanding trade

  3. The massive amounts of silver made available from New World mines

  4. The influx of New World cash crops like sugar and tobacco


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Precious metals, particularly silver, from mines located in presentday Peru and Mexico also enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia. Legends spread in seventeenth-century Europe about South America’s fabled wealth. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. 

Which food travelled west from China to be called "Spaghetti"?

  1. Soya

  2. Groundnuts

  3. Potato

  4. Noodles


Correct Option: D

Which disease spread like wind fire in Africa in the 1890's?

  1. Cattle plague

  2. Small pox

  3. Pneumonia

  4. None of thses


Correct Option: A

The Descendants of indentures workers is a Noble Prize winning writer is_______.

  1. Bob Morley

  2. V. S. Naipaul

  3. Amartya Sen

  4. Ram Naresh Sarwan


Correct Option: B

What was the Bretton wood system?

  1. Post war the military system

  2. Post war political system

  3. Post war international economic system

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

What were 'Canal Colonies'?

  1. Large Colonies

  2. Sea Port

  3. Large Canals

  4. Irrigated areas


Correct Option: D

Tax imposed on a country's imports from the rest of the world is called?

  1. Tariff

  2. Toll

  3. Excise

  4. None of thses


Correct Option: A

What did indentured labour mean?

  1. Cheap labour

  2. Free labour

  3. Bonded labour

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C