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Industrialisation bingoRead the answer and worked solution →For over a millennium, cowrie shells used as currency reached China and East Africa from:Read the answer and worked solution →Along the silk routes, what flowed from Europe to Asia in return for silk, pottery and spices?Read the answer and worked solution →Potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chillies reached Europe and Asia only after the voyages of:Read the answer and worked solution →The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors of America was the germ of:Read the answer and worked solution →Around 1,000,000 people died of starvation in the Great Irish Potato Famine of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which British laws restricting corn imports were scrapped under pressure from industrialists?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people emigrated from Europe to America and Australia in the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which technology let meat be shipped cheaply from America and Australia to Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1885 the big European powers met to complete the carving up of Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Rinderpest, arriving in Africa in the late 1880s, killed what share of the cattle?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian indentured labour contracts promised return travel after how many years of work?Read the answer and worked solution →The system of indentured labour migration from India was abolished in:Read the answer and worked solution →Shikaripuri shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars were Indian groups of:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1812 and 1871, the share of raw cotton in India's exports rose from 5 per cent to:Read the answer and worked solution →Henry Ford's cars came off the assembly line at intervals of:Read the answer and worked solution →US car production rose from 2 million in 1919 to more than how many in 1929?Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Depression began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1928 and 1934, wheat prices in India fell by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 was held in:Read the answer and worked solution →The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Bretton Woods system, the dollar was anchored to gold at a fixed price of:Read the answer and worked solution →Developing countries demanding a new international economic order organised as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the indenture destinationsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Bretton Woods wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the global-world datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pre-modern exchange wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Before 1914 or between the warsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the three flowsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →

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Industrialisation bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Company servant who supervised weavers.
    Item
    Gomastha
  2. Clue
    Trusted worker who recruited for mills.
    Item
    Jobber
  3. Clue
    Device that sped up handloom weaving.
    Item
    Fly shuttle
  4. Clue
    Rural production before factories.
    Item
    Proto-industry
  5. Clue
    Hargreaves' machine of 1764.
    Item
    Spinning Jenny
  6. Clue
    Gujarat port that decayed by the 1740s.
    Item
    Surat
  7. Clue
    Site of the 1912 iron and steel works.
    Item
    Jamshedpur
  8. Clue
    Source of cheap imported cloth.
    Item
    Manchester
  9. Clue
    European firms that managed Indian industry.
    Item
    Agencies
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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For over a millennium, cowrie shells used as currency reached China and East Africa from:

  1. The Maldives
  2. Sri Lanka
  3. Zanzibar
  4. The Andamans
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Correct answer: A. The Maldives

1. Cowdi is the Hindi word for cowrie. 2. They came from the Maldives. 3. Trade links are older than we think. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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Along the silk routes, what flowed from Europe to Asia in return for silk, pottery and spices?

  1. Glass and paper
  2. Gold and silver
  3. Wool and wine
  4. Horses and iron
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Correct answer: B. Gold and silver

1. Chinese silk went west along the routes. 2. Gold and silver came back east. 3. Missionaries and preachers travelled the same way. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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