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Tamil Nadu SSLC (Class 10) Global World & Industrialisation — practice questions

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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 →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 →

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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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