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Cotton piece-goods production in India doubled between 1900 and:Read the answer and worked solution →Match each person to what they didRead the answer and worked solution →Place the mills on the timelineRead the answer and worked solution →Britain or IndiaRead the answer and worked solution →True or false on industrialisationRead the answer and worked solution →Fill the gaps on industrialisationRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not fitRead the answer and worked solution →Who or what was itRead the answer and worked solution →Quick picks on the age of millsRead the answer and worked solution →Which explorer is the Columbian exchange named after?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Columbus's voyage to the Americas start the Columbian exchange?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these crops originated in the Americas?Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1500, where were potatoes grown?Read the answer and worked solution →Which disease killed many Taino people on Caribbean islands after 1493?Read the answer and worked solution →In what year was smallpox first recorded in the Americas?Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of Tenochtitlan's population died of smallpox in 1520?Read the answer and worked solution →Quinine, the first effective treatment for malaria, was obtained from the bark of which trees?Read the answer and worked solution →Which North American bird was transferred to Europe in the Columbian exchange?Read the answer and worked solution →Early on, animals mostly moved in which direction?Read the answer and worked solution →Plains Indians made extensive use of which animal for hunting after contact with Europeans?Read the answer and worked solution →European planters in the Americas relied on the skills of which workers to grow rice?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of enslaved Africans died on board ships during the Atlantic crossing, roughly?Read the answer and worked solution →On average, how many enslaved people did one slave ship carry?Read the answer and worked solution →Over which centuries did the triangular Atlantic slave trade operate?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three countries shipped most enslaved people up to the 1700s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two Rhode Island ports are named as major centres of the colonial triangular slave trade?Read the answer and worked solution →Salted cod from Newfoundland and New England was carried to southern Europe in which trade?Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured servitude is best described as which kind of labour?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the usual length of an indenture contract?Read the answer and worked solution →What did many indenture contracts provide once the labour was finished?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Cotton piece-goods production in India doubled between 1900 and:

  1. 1922
  2. 1932
  3. 1942
  4. 1912
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Correct answer: D. 1912

1. Indian yarn exports to China fell from 1906. 2. Industrialists shifted from yarn to cloth production. 3. Cotton piece-goods production doubled between 1900 and 1912. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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Match each person to what they did

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Matching pairs
  1. Left
    Richard Arkwright
    Right
    Created the cotton mill
  2. Left
    James Watt
    Right
    Patented the improved steam engine
  3. Left
    James Hargreaves
    Right
    Devised the Spinning Jenny
Instructions
Tap a name, then tap the line that goes with it.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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Place the mills on the timeline

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End
1930
Start
1750
Events
  1. Year
    1764
    Item
    Spinning Jenny devised
  2. Year
    1781
    Item
    Watt patents his engine
  3. Year
    1854
    Item
    First Bombay cotton mill
  4. Year
    1855
    Item
    First Bengal jute mill
  5. Year
    1874
    Item
    Madras mill starts up
  6. Year
    1912
    Item
    Tata steel at Jamshedpur
Instructions
Drag each event to the year it happened.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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