11. Discovery of America
Vast Lands
Abundant Crops
Minerals
Silver
El Dorado –
The Fabled City of Gold
European conquest and
colonization of America
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13. 1. Poverty and Hunger
Features of Europe until 19th century
2. Crowded Cities
3. Spread of deadly diseases
4. Religious conflicts
5. Dissenters fled to America
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14. 18th Century Plantations in America – Slave Workers from Africa
Growing Cotton and Sugar
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16. 1. “The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade
and cultural links between distant parts of the world.” Explain how.
[3]
2. Many a times introduction of new crops make the difference
between life and death/ Explain the statement with the example of
introduction of potato crop in Europe. [3]
3. “The pre-modern world changed with the discovery of
new sea routes to America. “Give any three suitable
examples to explain the statement. [3]
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17. Three Flows
Goods
Labour
Capital
Changing pattern of Food production
and consumption
Expansion of urban areas
Growth of Industries
Increased demand of food grains
Increase in prices
Restriction on
import of Corn
Demand for abolition
of Corn Law
Scrapped Corn law
Food Imported on less cost
Migration
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18. Fall in prices
Increase in food consumption
Industrial Growth
Eastern Europe, Russia, America and Australia
Increase Food production
Railways
Building new harbours and
expansion of old ones
Human Settlements
Capital + Labour
Finance
houses of
London
Migration
50m People
America and Australia
150m – all over the world
Agricultural
Globalization
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21. Q1. How economy in 19th century took the
global shape? Explain with the help of
food production.
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Q2. Explain the role of technology in shaping
global economy.
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22. Division of Africa – 1885 Berlin
Britain
France
Belgium
Germany
US
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23. Arrival of Europeans
Shortage of labour - unwillingness to work
Various methods Heavy taxes
Changed Inheritance law
Confinement
to mine
worker
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24. Arrived - 1880
Feed Italian Soldier
Invading Eritrea
Atlantic Coast - 1892
Cape - 1897
Killed 90% of Cattle
Monopolised cattle resource
To conquer and subdue Africans
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25. Q1. ‘Trade flourished and markets expanded in the
late 19th century, but there was a darker side to
this process’. Substantiate with example of
rinderpest. [5]
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Q2. What attracted the Europeans to
Africa? Give any three reasons [3]
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26.
27. Reasons -
Cottage industries
Rise in Land rents
Clearance of land for
mines and
Plantation
Destination -
Carribean Island
Trinidad
Guyana
Surinam
Homeland
Ceylon
Malaya
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Mauritius
Fiji
Tea Plantations
28. Agent – employed by Masters
Paid small commission
Why labour Agreed?
Escape poverty and oppression
False information provided
Final destination
Modes of travel
Nature of work
Living and working condition
Abduction
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30. New System of Slavery
Harsh Living and working conditions
Few legal Rights
Own ways of surviving
Escaped to wild
Individual and collective self expression
Blending different cultural forms
Trinidad
Muharram Procession
– riotous Carnival -
Hosay
Protest religion of RASTAFARIANISM
Jamaican regge star Bob Marley
Chutney Music
Guyana
Noble Prize winner - V.S Naipaul
West Indies Cricketer
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Abolishe
d in 1921
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31. Indian Entrepreneur Abroad
Shikaripuri Shroff and NattuKottai Chettiars
Bankers and Traders
Financed agriculture
Central Asia
South Asia
Sophisticated system to transfer money
Indigenous form of corporate Organizations
Followed European Colonisers in Africa
Hydrabadi Sindhi Traders
Established Emporia at busy ports
Selling local and imported Curios
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32. Cotton Manufacture in Britain
Industrialist demanded restriction on imports
Imposition of trade tariff
Declined Indian manufactured cotton trade
Stiff competition
1800 – 30%
1815 – 15%
1870 – 3%
Trade in Raw material increased
1812 – 5% 1871 – 35%
Indigo
Opium Trade
China
Trade Surplus
Used in trade deficit in other countries
Multilateral trade Settlement
Home Charges
Remittances
Interest payment in India’s external debt
Pensions
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33. What are indentured labourers? How were they recruited? Explain the condition of the
indentured labourers who went to work in different parts of the world.
Why have the historians described the 19th century indenture as a ‘new system of slavery’?
Explain any five reasons.
What is meaning of ‘cultural fusion’ ? Highlight any three forms of cultural fusion which
were part of the making of the global world.
Describe the contribution of Indian entrepreneurs in the world market.
How did the industrialisation in Britain affect the export of Indian cotton and textiles ?
What was then exported from India ?
Describe the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India
used by Britain ?
34.
35. Recruitment of Soldiers
from all round the world
Large scale destruction
9- million dead
20 million injured
Decline working population
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36. Changed observed -
Reduction in working force
Industries shifted to war related products
Reorganizedsocial structure
Snapped economic links
US – Debtor to Creditor
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37. Crisis faced by Britain
Development of industries in India and Japan
Difficult to recapture earlier position
Huge external debts
End of War boom
Contracted production
Increased unemployment
Reduced war expenditure
1/5 British worker
was out of work
Impact of Agricultural economies
Eastern Europe
Canada
America
Australia
Glut in wheat market
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38. Revival of US economy
Mass Production
Henry ford – A pioneer
Adopted assembly line of Chicago slaughterhouse
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40. Failed to control the pace
Quitted in large numbers
Doubled the wages
Banned the trade unions
Speeded the production line pace
Best cost cutting decision
Spread in US and Copied in Europe
Reduced costs of engineered products
High living standard
Wider market to cars
Car production
1919 – 2 million
1929 – 5 million
Other Luxury products
Hire Purchase
Boom in house construction
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42. 2. Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain’s economy [3]
1. Mention the main features of World War I. [5]
3. Describe the condition of agricultural economies after the First World War
with examples. [3]
4. Explain any four measures adopted by America for post-war recovery. [4]
5. Explain the main features of ‘assembly line method of mass production’.
What problem was faced by Ford ? How did he overcome it? [2+1+2]
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43.
44. Decline
Production
Employment
Income
Trade
Worst Affected
Agricultural regions and communities
Reasons of depression
Agricultural overproduction
Dependence on US for Loans
Withdrawal of US loans
Failure of banks
Collapse of currencies
Doubled import duties
America
Slashed down domestic loans
Demanded return of loans
Adversely impacted borrowers
Disappeared consumerist prosperity
Banking system collapsed
1933 – 4000 banks collapsed
1929-32 – 110,000 companies collapsed
Unemployment
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Slumped on agricultural and raw material
45. India’s international trade halved
B/w – 1928-34 – wheat prices fell to half
No reduction in revenue demands
Jute Producers
Increased peasant indebtness
Sold every piece of their savings/resources
John Maynard Keynes – India became exporter of Gold
Speeded up Britain’s recovery
Rural India
Urban India
Fixed income – lowering prices
Extension of trade tarriffs
Led to industrial growth
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46. Describe the effect of the Great Depression on the
world? Who were the worst affected by this
depression? [5]
Explain the causes of the Great Depression in the
US between 1929-30. [5]
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47. Loss of life – 60 million people died
3% of 1939 population killed
Loss of resources – destruction of cities
Emergence of US as Super power
Emergence of USSR as II super power
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Loss of civilians than Soldier
Two Crucial influences
48. Key Lessons from inter war period
Mass Production cannot sustained without mass consumption
Economic links with outside countries – Control on flows
Income stability
Government intervention
Main Aim of Post war Economic System
Preserve economic stability Full Employment
Frame work agreed upon
UNMFC at Bretton
Woods in New
Hampshire
IMF
External surplus and
deficits of member
nations
IBRD/World Bank
Finance post
war
reconstruction
Bretton woods institutions/Twins
Operational in 1947
US has dominant voice through VETO
Currencies pegged to $
$ = $35 per Ounce of Gold
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50. 1. What steps were taken by economists and politicians
of the world to meet the global economic crisis that
arose after World War II? [5]
2. What were the IMF and the World Bank
designed for? What made them shift their
attention towards developing countries?
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51. Growth of world trade – 8% annually between 1950-70
Income – 5%
Unemployment rate – less than 5%
Growth of developing countries
Invested in industrial plant and technology
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52. Newly decolonized country
Poverty
Lack of resources
unemployment
Developed Countries
Reduction of Europe and Japan dependency
BWI – shifted attention – developing countries
Former colonial powers
Powerful Countries like US
Controlled resources of
developing countries
Made G-77
Demanded NIEO
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54. Beginning of globalization
US finances and competitive strength weakened
Dollar – NO longer World Principal currency
Collapsed system of fixed exchange rates
System of floating exchange rates
Change in International
financial system
Developing countries
International institutions
Commercial banks and private banks
Periodic debt crisis
Lower incomes and increased poverty
Industrial world - Unemployment
Mid 1970’s – 1990s
MNCs – Shifted production to low wage Asian countries
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55. China cut
off -
Revolution
Collapse of
Soviet
Union
New
economic
policies
Eastern
Europe
More investment in low wage countries
China
world trade Capital flows
Globalization
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56. 1. “The relocation of industry to low-wage countries
stimulated world trade and capital flows.” Justify the
statement.
2. Why did the developing countries organize the G-77? Give
three reasons
3. Describe the factors that led to the end of the Bretton
Woods system and the beginning of Globalization.
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