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Tamil Nadu SSLC (Class 10) Global World & Industrialisation — practice questions — page 2

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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 →What share of European colonial immigrants were indentured?Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured servitude began its decline after which uprising in colonial Virginia?Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly how many Europeans went to the Caribbean as indentured servants before 1840?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Barbados indenture differ from slavery?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Indian indenture system, how many Indians called coolies were transported to colonies?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Indian indenture system finally banned?Read the answer and worked solution →The majority of which island's population descends from Indian indentured labourers brought in 1834 to 1921?Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured Indian workers were imported for which East African railway project?Read the answer and worked solution →During the 1860s, which trade in long-term indentured labour took place in Australia and the Pacific islands?Read the answer and worked solution →Most of the South Sea Islanders who worked Queensland's cane fields came from which region?Read the answer and worked solution →What were the slavers who contracted Chinese labourers in the mid-19th century called?Read the answer and worked solution →Thousands of Chinese labourers in the mid-19th century were contracted to plantations in which places?Read the answer and worked solution →

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On average, how many enslaved people did one slave ship carry?

  1. Just over 300
  2. About 3,000
  3. Just under 30
  4. Under 50
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Correct answer: A. Just over 300

Slave ships were built for large human cargoes and carried just over 300 people on average.

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Over which centuries did the triangular Atlantic slave trade operate?

  1. 12th to 14th
  2. 15th to 17th
  3. 16th to 19th
  4. 18th to 20th
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Correct answer: C. 16th to 19th

The trade linking Europe, Africa and the Americas ran from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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Which three countries shipped most enslaved people up to the 1700s?

  1. Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark
  2. Britain, Portugal, France
  3. Russia, Poland, Turkey
  4. Spain, Italy, Austria
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Correct answer: B. Britain, Portugal, France

Great Britain, Portugal and France shipped the largest numbers of enslaved people until the 18th century.

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