Tag: history

Questions Related to history

'Navniketanam' is a treatise on ______.

  1. Polity

  2. Medicine

  3. Economics

  4. Philosophy


Correct Option: B

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

Which among the following is the best example for the vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world?

  1. Caravan

  2. Silk Route

  3. Early ships

  4. Gold coins


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Silk Route is the best example for the vibrant premodern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The silk route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.