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Class 10 History
The Making Of A Global World
Quiz 4
Who adopted the concept of assembly line to produce automobiles?
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Samuel Morse
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Henry Ford
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T. Cuppla
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Imam Husain
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Option B is correct answer. Henry Ford introduced this new production process which revolutionised the modern industry.
An assembly line is a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence. Assembly lines are the most commonly used method in the mass production of products. They reduce labor costs because unskilled workers are trained to perform specific tasks.
Rinderpest is a?
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Cattle disease in Africa
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Cattle disease in China
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Cattle disease in India
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Cattle disease in Russia
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Option A is correct answer. Rinderpest is
an infectious disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by a paramyxovirus. It is characterized by fever, dysentery, and inflammation of the mucous membranes. It was originated in Africa.
Which of the following is not a economic exchange?
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Flow of labour
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Flow of capital
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Flow of knowledge
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Flow of trade
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Option C is correct answer.
Of the given four options, in flow of knowledge there is no economic exchange is involved. Rest three essentially included economic exchange.
When US became new colonial power?
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1850
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1870
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1890
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1900
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Britain and France made vast additions to their overseas territories in the late nineteenth century. Belgium and Germany became new colonial power. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by Spain.
In the western world, modern cities grew with _______________.
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Colonisation
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Imperialism
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Communalism
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Industrialisation
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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
Second World War fought between
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Third world Countries
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Axis power and Allied power
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only Britain and Germany
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Only U.S.A and Soviet Union
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Second World War was fought between the Axis powers (mainly Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy) and the Allies (Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the US).
How many people expected to have died in the Second World War ?
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60 millions
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80 millions
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75 Millions
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45 millions
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At least 60 million people, or about 3 per cent of the worlds 1939 population died in Second World War.
These rates fluctuate depending on demand and supply of currencies in foreign exchange markets, in principle, without interference by governments.
Which kind of Exchange Rate it is ?
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Floating Exchange rate
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Fixed Exchange Rate
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New Exchange Rate
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Bretton wood system
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Flexible or floating exchange rates fluctuate depending on demand and supply of currencies in foreign exchange markets, in principle, without interference by governments.
The ___________ are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade
and cultural links between distant parts of the world.
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Belt and Road
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Silk Routes
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Middle Passages
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None of the above
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The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The name silk route points to the importance of Chinese silk cargoes along this route. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking
Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
They are known to have
existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the
fifteenth century.
There is only one silk route.
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True
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False
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The above statement is false as historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking
Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
They are known to have
existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the
fifteenth century.
Nearly _______ per cent of global trade comprised of primary products.
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60
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40
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80
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Nearly 60 per cent of global trade comprised of primary products, that is, agricultural products such as wheat and cotton, and minerals such as coal.
Technological advances were the result of larger social,
political and economic factors.
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True
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False
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Technological advances were often the result of larger social, political and economic factors. For example, colonisation stimulated new investments and improvements in transport. Faster railways, lighter wagons and larger ships helped move food more cheaply
and quickly from colonial farms to final markets. Here, technological advances like faster railways and lighter ships were stimulated by the needs of colonies and domestic markets i.e. by political and economic factors.
The railways, steamships and the ___________ were important inventions without
which we cannot imagine the transformed nineteenth-century world.
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telephone
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telegraph
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television
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motion pictures
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We cannot imagine the transformed nineteenth-century world
without important technological inventions like the railways, steamships and the telegraph.
It was not enough to clear lands for agriculture to meet higher British demand.
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True
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False
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It was not enough merely to clear lands for agriculture to meet higher British demand for food. The following measures were also required to be taken:
1. Railways were needed to link the agricultural regions to the ports.
2. New harbours had to be built and old ones expanded to ship the new cargoes.
3. People had to settle on the lands to bring them under cultivation. This meant building homes and settlements.
4. All these activities required capital that flowed from financial centres such as London.
5. These activities also required labour in places such as America and Australia,
which led to migration from Europe, Asia and Africa.
Between 1820 and 1914 world trade is estimated to have multiplied _________ times.
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10 to 15
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15 to 20
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45 to 60
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25 to 40
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Between 1820 and 1914 world trade is estimated to have multiplied 25 to 40 times. This exponential increase in world trade occurred due to the fact that regional specialization in the production of commodities like food, cotton or rubber developed rapidly during this time.
The new crops could make the difference between life and death.
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True
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False
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The new crops could make the difference between life and death as when the potato was introduced in Ireland, its poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation.
_____________ were imposed on cloths
imports into Britain.
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Restrictions
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Barriers
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Incentives
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Tariffs
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Tariffs were imposed on cloth imports into Britain. This was because British cotton manufacturing expanded during industrialization. Consequently, industrialists pressurized the British government to restrict cotton imports and protect local industries by imposing tariffs on imports.
The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the _____________.
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US, UK, Europe
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Russia, Australia, New Zealand
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Caribbean islands, Mauritius and Fiji
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Japan, China and the Middle East
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The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean islands (mainly Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam), Mauritius and Fiji. Other destinations to which Indian indentured labourers went were
Ceylon and
Malaya.
Indentured workers were also recruited
for tea plantations in Assam.
__________ enabled the transport of perishable foods over long distances.
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Airplanes
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Refrigerated Trucks
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Refrigerated ships
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None of the above
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Refrigerated ships enabled the transport of perishable foods over long distances.
Now these ships
could transport
frozen meat
to
Europe
from their starting point in America, Australia or New Zealand where the
animals were reared and slaughtered.
In Trinidad the annual Muharram procession was transformed into a riotous carnival called ____________.
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Morram
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Sarwan
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Rastafari
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Hosay
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In Trinidad, the annual Muharram procession was transformed into a riotous carnival called 'Hosay' (for Imam Hussain) in which workers
of all races and religions joined.
This happened as the indentured workers developed new forms of individual and collective self-
expression, blending different cultural forms, old and new.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what fueled the increase in global trade?
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The export of cheap labor in the form of slaves from Africa
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The active participation of the Chinese government in expanding trade
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The massive amounts of silver made available from New World mines
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The influx of New World cash crops like sugar and tobacco
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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.
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