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Foods like potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, and maize reached Asia and Europe primarily AFTER:Read the answer and worked solution →Which three 19th-century technologies most reshaped global trade?Read the answer and worked solution →INDENTURED LABOUR from India in the 19th century mostly went to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Depression began with the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 established which two financial institutions?Read the answer and worked solution →GHANA gained independence from British colonial rule in:Read the answer and worked solution →India's FIRST modern steel mill, founded in 1907, was the achievement of:Read the answer and worked solution →India's FIRST COTTON MILL was established in:Read the answer and worked solution →CLASS10 · Socialscience · Industrialisation — True or FalseRead the answer and worked solution →As early as 3000 BCE, an active coastal trade linked which civilisation with West Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →The pre-modern Silk Routes were so named because they primarily carried:Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Depression began in approximately which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which crop, introduced from the Americas, ultimately became staple food in many parts of Europe and helped reduce famine?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bretton Woods system established the post-WWII international monetary framework with two key institutions. They are:Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured labour migration from India in the 19th century supplied workers mainly to:Read the answer and worked solution →V.S. Naipaul, whose ancestors were indentured labourers, is associated with which Caribbean country?Read the answer and worked solution →Rinderpest cattle plague devastated which continent in the 1890s, weakening African economies and labour resistance to colonial conquest?Read the answer and worked solution →After WWI, Britain's wartime borrowing made it a:Read the answer and worked solution →The 'Group of 77' (G-77) demanded a NIEO. NIEO stands for:Read the answer and worked solution →During the late 19th century, the route which connected the East and West via the Suez Canal opened in:Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Indian indenture migration end in 1921?Read the answer and worked solution →The 'Coolie ship' Tamils who emigrated to Sri Lanka and Malaya during indenture were primarily from which Indian region?Read the answer and worked solution →The first symbol of the new industrial era in Britain was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Proto-industrialisation refers to:Read the answer and worked solution →The first cotton mill in Britain was set up in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 'jobber' in 19th-century Indian cotton mills was:Read the answer and worked solution →James Watt's improvement of the steam engine was patented in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Spinning Jenny was invented by:Read the answer and worked solution →In late-19th-century India, who set up the first jute mill?Read the answer and worked solution →The 'fly shuttle' (also called the flying shuttle) was invented by:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Foods like potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, and maize reached Asia and Europe primarily AFTER:

  1. Marco Polo's travels to China around 1271
  2. Columbus reaching the Americas in 1492
  3. Vasco da Gama landing in Calicut in 1498
  4. British colonisation of India in mid-1700s
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Correct answer: B. Columbus reaching the Americas in 1492

These 'New World' foods (potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, maize, sweet potatoes, soybeans, groundnuts) were native to the Americas. They reached Asia and Europe only after Columbus's voyages from 1492 onwards.

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Which three 19th-century technologies most reshaped global trade?

  1. The printing press, the postal system, the telegraph
  2. Coal mining, gas lighting, and Suez Canal expansion
  3. Electric power, the radio, and the early automobile
  4. Railway, steamship, and the electric telegraph
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Correct answer: D. Railway, steamship, and the electric telegraph

The railway moved bulk goods across continents the steamship cut transatlantic and Bombay-Liverpool journeys the telegraph reduced information delays from months to seconds. Together they integrated the 19th-century world economy.

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INDENTURED LABOUR from India in the 19th century mostly went to:

  1. Caribbean, Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa
  2. Australia and New Zealand sheep farms
  3. Japan and Korea for industrial work
  4. Russia and Central Asia for railway lines
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Correct answer: A. Caribbean, Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa

About 1 million Indians went as indentured labour to Mauritius, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, and South Africa to work on sugar and rubber plantations. They were mostly UP/Bihar farmers.

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