History – The Making of Global World
Very Short Answers Type Questions
Q.1) What were the ‘Corn Laws’?
Ans) Under pressure from landed groups, the government restricted the import of corn. The laws allowing the government to do so were called the ‘Corn Laws’.
Q.2) Name the Indian industrialists in foreign?
Ans) Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars were prominent groups of Indian bankers and traders who played a key role in financing export agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia during a period of globalization.
Q.3) What was the system of hire-purchase?
Ans) Hire-purchase was a system in which buyers purchased goods on credit repaid in weekly or monthly installments.
Q.4) Who were the Allies in the First World War?
Ans) At the beginning of the war the Allies were Britain, France and Russia but later America also joined in.
Q.5) Who were the central powers in the First World War?
Ans) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey.
Q.6) Who were the Allies and the Axis Powers in the Second World War?
Ans) The Axis Powers-The Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy. The Allies-Britain, Soviet Union, France and America.
Q.7) What is meant by ‘Veto’ power?
Ans) Veto is the power by which a member can refuse to give official approval to an action or plan even when other members agree to it.
Q.8) What is meant by tariff?
Ans) A tariff is a tax imposed by a country on goods imported from the rest of the world. The tariff is imposed at the point of entry, i.e. at the border or airport.
Q.9) Which items were traded through the Silk Route? Write.
Ans) Porcelain was traded along the Silk Road, as well as textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious metals, gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia.
Q.10) Why the first world war was called an Industrial War? Write.
Ans) This was the first modern industrial war. Machine guns, rockets, airplanes and chemical weapons were used on a terrifying scale in this war. All these things were the result of modern big industries. This war caused such havoc of death and destruction which could not even be imagined before the industrial age and without industrial power.
Q.11) What do you find out by the ‘silk route’?
Ans) The name ‘silk route’ states importance of West bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route.
Q.12) Name the two European countries that had first occupied Americas.
Ans) Portugal and Spain were the first European countries to conquest the Americas.
Q.13) How do we talk about ‘globalization’?
Ans) When we talk about ‘globalization’. We often refer to an economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years.