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At which Indus Valley site the Dockyard was found?

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  1. Lothal

  2. Ropar

  3. Kalibangan

  4. Banawali

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Correct Option: A

The famous Harappan site of Lothal is situated in __________.

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  1. Sind

  2. Gujarat

  3. Rajasthan

  4. Maharashtra

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Correct Option: B

Who wrote the play Neel Darpan?

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  1. Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Subhas Chandra Bose

  3. Dinabandhu Mitra

  4. Lala Lajpat Rai

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Neel Darpan is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-1859.

"Crusades" means _____.

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  1. A procedure adopted to propagate religion

  2. Priests

  3. Local Governors during Roman's period

  4. Religious wars fought between Christians and Muslims

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

These are the religious wars fought between Christians and Muslims. The Crusades had major political, economic, and social Impacts on Western Europe. It resulted in a substantial weakening of the Byzantine Empire, which fell several centuries later to the Ottoman Empire.

It is considered that Industrial revolution originated in ______.

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  1. England

  2. France

  3. Germany

  4. India

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The spread of the industrial revolution is first recorded from Britain. Series of socio-economic changes began in Britain in the eighteen century and then spread to other parts of the world. The term was earlier used by French writers and popularized by the English Arnold Toynbee to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840. It spread to France and Germany around the same period after Britain.

All of the following are examples of the improved maritime technology used by Europeans in the early modern period EXCEPT:

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  1. Astrolabe

  2. Mast

  3. Compass

  4. Cartography

  5. Caravel

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Astrolabe.

Who appealed to all the Christians to join the crusades against the Turks to recover their holy land?

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  1. King of England

  2. Pope

  3. Kohen

  4. Queen of England

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Correct Option: B

The crusades facilitated the exchange of __________________ knowledge.

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  1. Scientific and technological

  2. Social and cultural

  3. Materialistic

  4. Religious

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Correct Option: A

Which of these BEST describes the Treaty of Tordesillas?

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  1. A treaty signed by the Pope to show support for colonization in the Americas.

  2. A treaty designed to establish Spain and England as the primary trade dominators in Western Europe.

  3. A treaty signed to keep the peace in Europe due to growing trade and colonial rivalries.

  4. A treaty that limited the trading rights of Portugal in the Indian Ocean.

  5. A treaty that gave the colony of Brazil to Spain.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A treaty signed by the Pope to show support for colonization in the Americas.

A _______ was one in which the majority of its citizens came to develop a common sense of identity and shared history of descent.

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  1. City-state

  2. Nation-state

  3. Multinational state

  4. Totalitarian state

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Correct Option: B