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UPSC CDS Modern Indian History — practice questions — page 21

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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 →Global world bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest hand printing, rubbing paper on inked woodblocks from AD 594, developed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest Japanese printed book, from AD 868, is the Buddhist:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chillies reached Europe and Asia only after the voyages of:

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Vasco da Gama of Portugal
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. Marco Polo of Venice
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Correct answer: A. Christopher Columbus

1. These foods came from the American Indians. 2. Columbus found the Americas by accident. 3. Europe's poor lived longer on the potato. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors of America was the germ of:

  1. Malaria
  2. Smallpox
  3. Cholera
  4. Plague
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Correct answer: B. Smallpox

1. The original inhabitants had no immunity. 2. Smallpox killed whole communities. 3. It spread ahead of the Europeans themselves. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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Around 1,000,000 people died of starvation in the Great Irish Potato Famine of:

  1. 1875 to 1879
  2. 1895 to 1899
  3. 1845 to 1849
  4. 1815 to 1819
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Correct answer: C. 1845 to 1849

1. Ireland's poor depended on the potato. 2. Disease destroyed the crop in the mid-1840s. 3. Double that number emigrated. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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