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Foreign policy bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The first industrial revolution in Britain is dated to which decades?Read the answer and worked solution →Who first used the term Industrial Revolution in English, in lectures on the reign of George III?Read the answer and worked solution →Of the 19 European cities whose population doubled between 1750 and 1800, how many were in Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bank of England, centre of the financial system, was founded in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1709 the first Abraham Darby invented a blast furnace using which fuel instead of charcoal?Read the answer and worked solution →Who designed the puddling furnace and rolling mill for purifying iron?Read the answer and worked solution →The world's first iron bridge, built in 1779, spans which river at Coalbrookdale?Read the answer and worked solution →The flying shuttle loom of 1733 was designed by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →James Hargreaves made the spinning jenny in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which inventor of the water frame was by trade a barber and wig-maker?Read the answer and worked solution →The machine nicknamed the mule, spinning strong fine yarn, was invented in 1779 by:Read the answer and worked solution →Watt's horsepower unit equals lifting how many pounds one foot in one minute?Read the answer and worked solution →Thomas Savery built a model steam engine in 1698 to drain mines. What was it called?Read the answer and worked solution →James Watt developed his improved steam engine in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The first English canal, the Worsley Canal of 1761, was built by whom to carry coal?Read the answer and worked solution →The first railway line, opened in 1825, connected which two towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Cities in England with over 50,000 people grew from two in 1750 to how many in 1850?Read the answer and worked solution →Parliament passed two Combination Acts against protest in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The machine-breaking movement of 1811-17 led by General Ned Ludd was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Eighty thousand people gathered at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, in August 1819. The crackdown was called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mines and Collieries Act of 1842 banned which groups from working underground?Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in which specially built structure in London?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the inventorsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the textile machinesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the invention yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the steam menRead the answer and worked solution →Iron or cottonRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the protest eventsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →

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Foreign policy bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Five principles with China, 1954.
    Item
    Panchsheel
  2. Clue
    1955 Afro-Asian conference.
    Item
    Bandung
  3. Clue
    Ladakh area China occupied.
    Item
    Aksai-chin
  4. Clue
    Soviet-brokered pact of 1966.
    Item
    Tashkent
  5. Clue
    1972 pact with Bhutto.
    Item
    Shimla
  6. Clue
    Mujib's party in East Pakistan.
    Item
    Awami League
  7. Clue
    Peaceful nuclear explosion of 1974.
    Item
    Pokhran
  8. Clue
    Father of India's nuclear programme.
    Item
    Bhabha
  9. Clue
    1999 conflict on the LoC.
    Item
    Kargil
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 4, India's External Relations._

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The first industrial revolution in Britain is dated to which decades?

  1. 1780s to 1850s
  2. 1650s to 1700s
  3. 1880s to 1920s
  4. 1600s to 1650s
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Correct answer: A. 1780s to 1850s

1. It transformed industry and the economy in Britain. 2. The dates are the 1780s to the 1850s. 3. A second phase after 1850 saw chemicals and electricity. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 9, The Industrial Revolution._

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Who first used the term Industrial Revolution in English, in lectures on the reign of George III?

  1. Eric Hobsbawm
  2. Arnold Toynbee
  3. Friedrich Engels
  4. Georges Michelet
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Correct answer: B. Arnold Toynbee

1. Michelet and Engels used it in French and German. 2. Arnold Toynbee used it in English for 1760-1820. 3. His lectures were published in 1884. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 9, The Industrial Revolution._

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