JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

JAC Board Class 10th Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1.
Peoples’ livelihood and local economy of which one of the following was badly affected by the disease named Rinderpest?
(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) South America
Answer:
(c) Africa

Question 2.
Most Indian indentured workers came from
(a) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
(b) North-eastern states
(c) Jammu and Kashmir
(d) None of these
Answer:
(a) Eastern Uttar Pradesh

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 3.
Who adopted the concept of an assembly line to produce automobiles?
(a) Henry Ford
(b) T. Coppola
(c) y.s. Naipaul
(d) Samuel Morse
Answer:
(a) Henry Ford

Question 4.
Which of the following diseases killed the majority of America’s original inhabitants?
(a) Cholera
(b) Small Pox
(c) Typhoid
(d) Plague
Answer:
(b) Small Pox

Question 5.
At which of the following states in USA was the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held in 1944?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) New York
(c) San Francisco
(d) New Jersey
Answer:
(a) New Hampshire

Question 6.
Which two institutions are well-known as Bretton Wood Institution?
(a) UNICEF and IMF
(b) WHO and World Bank
(c) IMF and World Bank
(d) UNESCO and UNICEF
Answer:
(c) IMF and World Bank

Question 7.
The group of powers collectively known as the Axis power during the 2nd World War were
(a) Germany, Italy, Japan
(b) Austria, Germany, Italy
(c) France, Japan, Italy
(d) Japan, Germany, Turkey
Answer:
(a) Germany, Italy, Japan

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 8.
Which of the following statement correctly identifies the corn laws?
(a) Restricted the import of corn to England.
(b) Allowed the import of com to England.
(c) Imposed tax on com.
(d) Abolished the sale of com.
Answer:
(a) Restricted the import of corn to England.

Question 9.
The World Bank was set up to
(a) finance rehabilitation of refugees
(b) finance post war construction.
(c) finance industrial development
(d) help third world countries.
Answer:
(b) finance post war construction.

Question 10.
Mark the correct response out of the following:
(a) The silk route acted as a link between different countries.
(b) The silk route helped in cultural and commercial exchange.
(c) The silk route acted as a route for west bound silk cargos from China.
(d) All the above.
Answer:
(d) All the above.

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
What do you mean by Indentured labour?
Answer:
Indentured labour is a bonded labour in which a labourer works under contract to work for an employer for a specific period of time, to pay off his passage to a new country or home.

Question 2.
What is Tariff?
Answer:
Tax imposed on a country’s imports from the rest of the world is called Tariff. Tariffs are levied at the point of entry, i.e., at the border or the airport.

Question 3.
What are the main elements of globali zation?
Answer:
The main elements of globalization are trade, migration of people in search of job, movement of capital and much else.

Question 4. State a positive aspect of India’s development strategy prior to 1991.
Answer:
The strategy has helped India in creating a large industrial base and increase in industrial production.

Question 5.
What is “bilateral agreements”?
Answer:
Whenever a country involves itself in a trade with some other country, there is an agreement between them. This agreement is called bilateral agreement.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 6.
Define sustainable economic develop-ment.
Answer:
The development that takes place without damaging the environment and in the present does not compromise on the needs of future-generations, is called sustainable econoriiic development.

Question 7.
What were ‘Corn Laws’?
Answer:
The laws that allowed the British govern-ment to restrict the import of com were known as ‘Com laws’.

Question 8.
What does IBRD stand for?
Answer:
IBRD stands for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Question 9.
State the strategies under new economic policy.
Answer:
The strategies under new economic policy are:

  1. Liberalization
  2. Privatization
  3. Globalization.

Question 10.
What do you mean by Exchange Rates?
Answer:
In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value ,
of one country’s currency in relation to another currency. They link national currencies for purposes of international trade. There are broadly two kinds of exchange rates fixed exchange rate and floating exchange rate.

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Write a brief note on the ‘Irish Potato Famine’.
Answer:
Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato. Ireland’s poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation. These starvation deaths were called the ‘Irish Potato Famine’.

Question 2.
Did the silk routes have religious significance?
Answer:
Yes, the silk routes had a great religious significance. For example

  1. Buddhism, that emerged in eastern India, spread in several directions through intersecting points along the silk routes.
  2. Similarly, later on, Christianity and Islam also got promoted and spread as their missionaries travelled along the silk routes.

Question 3.
What do you know about the Shikaripuri shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars?
Answer:
They were amongst the many groups of – bankers and traders who financed export agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia, using either their own funds or those borrowed from European banks. They had a sophisticated system to transfer money over large distances, and even developed indigenous forms of corporate organisation.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 4.
What led to the collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates?
Answer:
The rising costs of its overseas involve¬ments weakened the US’s finance and competitive strength. The US dollar now no longer commanded confidence as the world’s’ principal currency. It eventually led to the collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates and the introduction of a system of floating exchange rates.

Question 5.
Define Great Depression.
Answer:
Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1930s. During this period most parts of the world experienced catastrophic declines in production, employment, incomes and trade. The exact timing and impact of the depression varied across countries. But in general, agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected. This was because the falj agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods.

Question 6.
Describe the changes that have occurred ‘ in India due to the adoption of the policy of liberalization and globalization.
Answer:
(i) Visible changes:

  1. There are better services in communication ’ sector such as telephone, colour television and other electronic goods at low price.
  2. Many food processing companies have taken over the market, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other food products.

(ii) Invisible changes:

  1. The share of India in trade and services in the world has increased.
  2. Foreign direct investment in India has increased.
  3. Foreign exchange reserves have increased.
  4. Price rise in terms of percentage have declined.
  5. Marginal growth in industry and employment opportunities is shown.

Question 7.
Why did household income decline after the First World War? Give two reasons.
Answer:
The household income declined after the First World War because of the following reasons:

  1. During the war much of the attention was on the production of war related goods and people for fighting. Large tracts of lands were left uncultivated which reduced household income.
  2. The war saw large scale killing, most of them were men of working age. The deaths and injuries in the war reduced the able-bodied workforce. Families left behind found it difficult to survive.

Question 8.
Describe the Canal Colonies. Where and why were they introduced?
Answer:
The areas irrigated by new canals built by the British were called the Canal Colonies. These were introduced in the region of west Punjab. Peasants from the other parts of Punjab settled around these canals. The British wanted to transform semi desert wastelands into fertile agricultural lands. Their aim was to grow wheat and cotton for export.

Question 9:
Explain what is referred to as G-77 countries.
Answer:
Most developing countries did not benefit from the fast growth the Western .economies experienced in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Therefore, they organized themselves into a group, i.e. the Group of 77 or G-77 to demand a New International Economic Order (NIEO). NIEO means a system that would give them real control over their natural resources, fair prices for raw materials and better access for their manufactured goods in developed countries’ markets.

Question 10:
Why was the First World War called the World War?
Answer:
The First World War was called the World War because:

  1. The First World War was the first modem industrial war. In this war machine guns, tanks, aircrafts and chemical weapons were used on a large scale.
  2. Millions of soldiers were recruited from around the world and were brought to the front in ships and trains.
  3. About 9 million civilians died and 20 millions were injured.
  4. Most of the killed and injured were men of working age, reducing the able-bodied workforce in Europe.
  5. During the war, industries were reconstructed to produce war related goods.
  6. Britain borrowed large sums of money from the US banks. Thus, the war transformed the US from being an .international debtor to an international creditor.

Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1. How did silk routes link the world? Explain with example.
Answer:
The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The name ‘silk routes’ points to the , importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century.

But Chinese pottery also travelled the same route, as did textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious metals – gold and silver – flowed from Europe to Asia. Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled this route to Asia, as did early Muslim preachers a few centuries later. Much before all this, Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk routes.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 2.
What were the results of ‘Shrinking’ of the world from 16th century onwards? Answer: The ‘Shrinking’ of the world from 16th century onwards, resulted into many developments. These were as under:

  1. Americas (North, South America and Caribbean Islands) were discovered.
  2. Americas were colonized by the European powers.
  3. Sea trade route through Indian Ocean was also discovered by the European sailors.
  4. This led to the expansion and redirection of Asian trade towards Europe.
  5. China isolated and restricted itself from overseas contacts.
  6. Due to this, the centre for trade got shifted from China towards West, i.e., in Europe.
  7. The gold and silver mines of South American countries like Peru, El Dorado and Mexico got exposed to the European powers.
  8. Smallpox, a deadly disease also spread into American continents through European soldiers.

Question 3.
What was the role of technology in shaping the world? Give an example.
Answer:
The railways, steamships, the telegraph, for example, were important inventions without which we cannot imagine the transformed nineteenth-century world. But technological advances were often the result of larger social, political and economic factors. For example, colonisation stimulated new investments and improvements in transport faster railways, lighter wagons and larger ships helped friove food more cheaply and quickly from far away farms to final markets. The trade in meat offers a good example of this connected process.

Till the 1870s, animals were shipped live from America to Europe and then slaughtered when they arrived there. But live animals took up a lot of ship space. Many also died in voyage, fell ill, lost weight, or became unfit to eat. Meat was hence an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European poor. High prices in turn kept demand and production went down until the development of a new technology, viz., refrigerated ships, which enabled the transport of perishable foods over long distances. Now animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand and then transported to Europe as frozen meat. This reduced shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe.

Question 4.
Describe the period of First World War and its after effects.
Answer:
The’First World War, as you know, was fought between two power blocs. On the one side were the Allies Britain, France and Russia (later joined by the US); and on the opposite side were the Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey. When the war began in August 1914, many governments thought it would be over by Christmas. It lasted more than four years. The First World War was a war like no other before.

The fighting involved the world’s leading industrial nations which now harnessed the vast powers of modem industry to inflict the greatest possible destruction on their enemies. This war was thus the first modem industrial war. It saw the use of machine guns, tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons, etc., on a massive scale. These were all increasingly products of modem large scale industry. To fight the war, millions of soldiers had to be recmited from around the world and moved to the frontlines on large ships and trains.

The scale of death and destruction – 9 million dead and 20 million injured – was unthinkable before the industrial age, without the use of industrial arms. Most of the killed and maimed were men of working age. These deaths and injuries reduced the able-bodied workforce in Europe. With fewer numbers within the family, household incomes declined after the war. During the war, industries were restructured to produce war-related goods.

Entire societies were also reorganised for war – as men went to battle, women stepped in to undertake jobs that earlier only men were expected to do. The war led to the snapping of economic links between some of the world’s largest economic powers which were now fighting each other to pay for them. So Britain borrowed large sums of money from the US banks as well as the US public. Thus the war transformed the US from being an international debtor to an international creditor. In other words, at the war’s end, the US and its citizens owned more overseas assets than foreign governments and citizens owned in the US.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

Question 5.
Explain the effects of the Great Depression on the world.
Answer:
The Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1950s. During this period most parts of the world experienced catastrophic decline in production, employment, incomes and trade. The exact timing and impact of the depression varied across countries. But in general, agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected. This was because the fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods.

The depression was caused by a combination of several factors. We have already seen how fragile the post-war world economy was. First: agricultural overproduction remained a problem. This was made worse by falling agricultural prices. As prices slumped and agricultural income declined, farmers tried to expand production and bring a larger volume of produce to the market to maintain their overall income. This worsened the glut in the market, pushing down prices even further. Farm produce rotted for the lack of buyers.

Second:
in the mid-1920s, many countries financed their investments through loans from the US. While it was often extremely easy to raise loans in the US when the going was good, the US overseas lenders panicked at the first sign of trouble. In the first half of 1928, the US overseas loans amounted to over $ 1 billion. A year later it was one quarter of that amount. Countries that depended crucially on the US loans now faced an acute crisis.

The withdrawal of the US loans affected much of the rest of the world, though in different ways. In Europe it led to the failure of some major banks and the collapse of currencies such as the British pound sterling. In Latin America and elsewhere it intensified the slump in agricultural and raw material prices. The US attempt to protect its economy in the depression by doubling import duties also brought another severe blow to world trade. The US was also an industrial country which was most severely affected by the depression. With the fall in prices and the prospect of a depression, the US banks had also slashed domestic lending and called back loans.

Farms could not sell their harvests, households were ruined, and businesses collapsed. Faced with falling incomes, many households in the US could not repay what they had borrowed, and were forced to give up their homes, cars and other consumer durables. The consumerist prosperity of the 1920s now disappeared in a puff of dust. As unemployment soared, people trudged long distances looking for any work they could find. Ultimately, the US banking system itself collapsed.

Unable to recover investments, collect loans and repay depositors, thousands of banks went bankrupt and were forced to close. The numbers are phenomenal: by 1933 over 4,000 banks were closed and between 1929 and 1932 about 110,000 companies had collapsed. By 1935, a modest economic recovery was underway in most industrial countries. But the Great Depression’s wider effects on society, politics and international relations, and on peoples’ minds, proved more enduring.

Activity Based Questions

Question 1.
On a map of Africa, locate and mark how Africa was colonized by different colonial powers.
Answer:
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Question 2.
Look at the following picture and answer the questions that follow:
JAC Class 10 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World 2
(a) What do you observe in the given picture?
(b) What do you mean by the Irish Potato Famine?
Answer:
(a) Hungry children digging for potatoes in a field that has already been harvested, hoping to discover some leftovers.

(b) Ireland’s poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid- 1840s. During the Great Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1849), around 1,000,000 people died of starvation in Ireland, and double the number emigrated in search of work.

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JAC Class 10 Social Science Solutions History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

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JAC Class 10th History The Making of Global World InText Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Explain what we mean when we say that the world ‘shrank’ in the 1500s.
Answer:
The word ‘Shrank’ stands for increased interaction among the people of various continents of the world. Before the 1500s there was not much interconnectedness, trade and commerce among the residents of various continents. But after the 1500s the commercial cultural exchange of ideas and people increased in the continents of the world that stretched from America to Asia through Europe and Africa.

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Question 2.
Prepare a flow chart to show how Britain’s decision to import food led to increased migration to America and Australia.
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Question 3.
Imagine that you are an agricultural worker who has arrived in America from Ireland. Write a paragraph on why you chose to come and how you are earning your living.
Answer:
The potato crop had failed in Ireland last year and I had no money. There was no food to eat. The cities were very crowded and many diseases were prevalent. Also, we Catholics were prosecuted by the Englishmen, who were mostly Protestants. The English tried to dominate us by imposing English language on us. That is why I decided to leave Ireland and immigrate to America, where I was sure that I would have a better future. Here, I am earning my living as an agricultural labourer on a very big wheat farm. I get a regular salary and am very happy that I have left Ireland.

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Question 4.
Discuss the importance of language and popular traditions in the creation of national identity.
Answer:
A person is identified by his language and traditional practices because the language that he speaks belongs to a nation, his motherland. It is the nation which is important than an individual. Also the language and traditional practices of a land or territory develop in a long time, thus get firmly established. People are bom and die but language and traditions stay. They are always alive. They give an identity to an individual, wherever he goes. Therefore, the language and popular traditions are important in creating national identity of an individual.

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Question 5.
Who profits from jute cultivation according to the jute growers’ lament? Explain.
Answer:
The jute growers’ lament was that only the traders and moneylenders profited from jute cultivation, not the growers. Peasants of Bengal cultivated raw jute which was processed in factories for export in the form of gunny bags. They grew raw jute I hoping that a better time would come and there would be increase in exports.But this did not happen as gunny exports collapsed due to the depression. Due to glut in the local market, the price of raw jute crashed by more than 60% and so they fell into heavy debt. Thus, only the traders and moneylenders profited from jute cultivation, not the farmers.

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Question 6.
Briefly summarise the two lessons learnt by economists and politicians from the inter-war economic experience.
Answer:
The inter-war economic experience was very bad. Most of the countries were devastated and cities were destroyed.The economists and politicians learned that they had to ensure economic stability of the industrial countries. Also they understood the interdependence of national economies all over the world.Hence, they drew up an internationally accepted framework to recover and consolidate the world economy.

JAC Class 10th History The Making of Global World Textbook Questions and Answers

Write in brief:

Question 1.
Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.
Answer:
(i) Exchange of food: Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange. It is believed that ‘noodles’ travelled west from China to become ‘spaghetti’.

(ii) Exchange of germs:
The Portuguese andSpanish conquests and colonisation of America were decisively underway by the mid-sixteenth century. The European conquest was not just a result of superior firepower. In fact, the most powerful I weapon of the Spanish conquerors wasnot a conventional military weapon at all. It was the germs such as those of smallpox I that they carried on their person.

Because of their long isolation, America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases that came from Europe. Smallpox in particular proved a deadly killer. Once introduced, it spread deep into the continent, ahead even of any European ireaching there. It killed and decimated whole communities, paving the way for conquest.

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Question 2.
Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas,
Answer:
The global transfer of disease in the pre modem world helped in the colonisation I of the Americas because the Native l American Indians were not immune to the diseases that the settlers and colonisers brought with them. The Europeans were more or less immune to small pox, but the native Americans, having been cut : off from the rest of the world for millions of years, had no defence against it.These germs killed and wiped out whole’communities, paving the way for foreign domination. Weapons and soldiers could be destroyed or captured, but diseases could not be fought against.

Question 3.
Write a note to explain the effects of the following:
(a) The British government’s decision to abolish the Corn Laws.
(b) The coming of rinderpest to Africa,
(c) The death of men of working-age in . Eqrope because of the World War.
(d) The Great Depression on the Indian economy.
(e) The decision of MNCs to relocate production to Asian countries,
Answer:
(a) Population growth from the late eighteenth century had increased the demand for foodgrains in Britain. As urban centres expanded and industry grew, the demand for agricultural products went up, pushing up foodgrain prices. Under pressure from landed groups, the government also restricted the import of com.

The laws allowing the government to do this were commonly known as the ‘Com Laws’. Unhappy with high food prices, industrialists and urban dwellers forced the abolition of the com laws. After the com laws were scrapped, food could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced within the country. British agriculture was unable to compete with imports. Vast areas of land were now left uncultivated, and thousands of men and women were thrown out of work.

(b) In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy. This is a good example of the widespread European imperial impact on colonised societies. It shows how in this era of conquest even a disease affecting cattle reshaped the lives and fortunes of thousands of people and their relations with the rest of the world.

The loss of cattle destroyed African livelihoods. Planters, mine owners and colonial governments now successfully monopolised what scarce cattle resources remained, to strengthen their power and to force Africans into the labour market. Control over the scarce resource of cattle enabled the European colonisers to conquer and subdue Africa.

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(c) Most of the victims of the first world war belonged to young generations of working men. As a result, it reduced the workforce in Europe, thereby reducing household income. The role of women increased and led to demand for more equality of status. It made the feminist movement stronger. Women started working alongside men in every field. Women and youngsters became more independent and free with long-term effects.

(d) The impact of the Great Depression in India was felt especially in the agricultural sector. It was evident that Indian economy was closely becoming integrated to global economy. India was a British colony. It exported agricultural goods and imported manufactured goods.

The fall in agricultural price led to reduction of farmers’ income and agricultural export. The government did not decrease their tax and so, many farmers and landlords became more indebted to moneylenders and corrupt officials. It led to a great rural unrest in India.

(e) The industrial world was also hit by unemployment that began rising from the mid-1970s and remained high until the early 1990s. From the late 1970s, the MNCs also began to shift production operations to low-wage Asian countries. The relocation of industry to low-wage countries stimulated world trade and capital flows. In the last two decades the world’s economic geography has been transformed as countries such as India, China and Brazil have undergone rapid economic transformation.

Question 4.
Give tjyo examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability.
Answer:
(i) Availability of cheap food in different markets:
Improvements in transport, faster railways, lighter wagons and larger ships helped move food more cheaply and quickly from the far away farms to the final markets.

(ii) Impact on meat:
Till the 1870s, meat from America was shipped to Europe in the form of live animals which were then slaughtered in Europe. But live animals took up a lot of ship space. But the invention of refrigerated ships made it possible to transport meat from one region to another. Now animals were slaughtered in America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to Europe as frozen meat.

The invention of refrigerated ship had the following advantages This reduced shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe.The poor in Europe could now consume a more varied diet. To the earlier monotony of bread and potatoes many, not all, could add meat, butter and eggs.Better living conditions promoted Social peace within the country, and support for imperialism abroad.

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Question 5.
What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?
The Bretton Woods system inaugurated an era of unprecedented growth of trade and incomes for the Western industrial nations and Japan. World trade grew annually at over 8 per cent between 1950 and 1970 and incomes at nearly 5 per cent. The growth was also mostly stable, without large fluctuations. For much of this period the unemployment rate, for example, averaged less than 5 per cent in most industrial countries.

NCERT ‘Discuss’ Questions

Question 1.
Imagine that you are an indentured Indian labourer in the Caribbean. Drawing from the details in this chapter, write a letter to your family describing your life and feelings.
Answer:
Shri Swaminathan,
B-30 Anna Nagar,
Madras (Chennai) Date 12/04/1911

Dear Papa,
Hope, all is well at your end. I am trying to get settled in this Caribbean country. Presently, I am working in Trinidad . (Caribbean) as an indentured labourer. Through this letter, I would like to draw a picture to you about my hardship and simultaneous the misbehaviour of the contractor towards me. The contractor at the time of hiring me did not provide the correct information regarding the place of work, mode of travel and living and working conditions.

Very few legal rights are provided to us. The contractor uses harsh and abusive language at the worksite. He treats us like coolies and we are an uneasy minority in the cocoa plantations in Trinidad. Whenever I do not attend my work, I am prosecuted and sent to jail. There is a lot of work at the plantations with heavy workload and sometimes I have to finish all of it one day. In case of unsatisfactory work (in the contractor’s thinking), my wages are cut. I am living a life of a slave and in great trouble.

Yours
Satyamurthy

Question 2.
Explain the three types of movements or flows within international economic exchange. Find one example of each type of flow which involved India and -Indians, and write a short account of it.
Answer:
The thAe types of movements or flows in international economic exchange are:
(i) Flow of Trade:
This refers to trade in tangible goods like wheat, cotton, etc. Historically fine cotton cloth was produced in India by the weavers and exported to European countries, but when the industrial revolution started in Europe and,the European countries imposed tariff barriers, this export of textiles dropped
drastically. In fact, India started exporting raw cotton and importing mill made cloth from England.

(ii) Flow of Labour:
This refers to migration of people in search of employment: During the nineteenth century, a large number of Indian labourers migrated to Africa, the West Indies and the other countries to work on plantations and in mines as well as in railway and road construction projects set up by the Europeans. These Indians settled in the countries where they had gone after their contracts ended and now their descendants are found in these countries.

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(iii) Flow of Capital:
This refers to movement of capital over long distances for short¬term and long-term investments. Groups of Indian financiers and traders like the Sheriffs. Chatters, etc., financed agriculture plantations in various Asian and African countries using their own funds or those borrowed from the European banks.

Question 3.
Explain the causes of the Great Depression.
Answer:
The causes of the Great Depression were:
(i) Conditions Created by War: There was an immense industrial expansion in view of the increased demand of goods supplied to the army during the period of the First World War. After the war, the demand for these goods suddenly dropped and so there was no demand in many industries. There was also a large fall in the agricultural prices due to reduced demand.

(ii) Overproduction in Agriculture:
Agricultural overproduction was another major factor responsible for the depression. This was made worse by falling agricultural prices. As prices slumped and agricultural incomes declined, the farmers tried to increase the production and bring a larger volume of produce to the market to maintain their overall income. This worsened the situation by pushing down the prices of farm produce further. Various goods rotted in the markets because of lack of buyers.

(iii) Shortage of Loans: In the mid-1920’s many countries financed their investments through loans from the USA. While it was often very easy to raise loans in the USA during the boom period, the USA overseas lenders panicked at the first sign of trouble.

(iv) Multiple Effects: With the fall in prices and the prospect of a depression, the USA banks slashed domestic lending and stopped bank loans. Thousands of banks went bankrupt and were forced to close down. Factories were closed, leading to unemployment of hundreds of people who were rendered jobless, which further aggravated the crisis.

Question 4.
Explain what is referred to as the G-77 countries. In what ways can G-77 be seen as a reaction to the activities of the Bretton Woods twins?
Answer:
The developing countries did not benefit from the economic growth of the developed countries like the USA, European countries and Japan. To remove this disparity, these 77 countries organized themselves into a group called the G-77 countries. Later on, more developing countries joined the group and now it consists of about 130 countries. They have demanded a New International Economic Order, in which they have a real coptrol over their natural resources; they get more development assistance and fairer prices for raw materials exported by them.

They want better access to the markets in developed countries for their, manufactured goods. The Bretton Woods twins, IMF and World Bank, were mainly set up to favour the developed nations. They did not help the developing nations significantly as both of these institutions controlled their investments in the developing countries. So, the developing countries decided to set up their own group, the G-77, so that they could bargain better with these institutions and the developed countries for economic development and resultant benefits.

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Question 1.
Find out more about gold and diamond mining in South Africa in the nineteenth century. Who controlled the gold and diamond companies? Who were the miners and what were their lives like?
Answer:
(i) During the 19th century in South Africa, gold was discovered in Johannesburg and diamond in Kimberly. Soon European migrants began mining of gold and diamond in South Africa, when from 1886 onwards, mining business became highly profitable. This can be attested by the data that South Africa was producing world’s 27% gold from 1886 to 1914 (the year of First World War).

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(ii) Cecil Rhodes was the first European to create a gold and diamond mining monopoly buying up land and forming De Beers. Today it is world’s largest diamond producing company.

(iii) Mining companies were controlled by the Europeans and Americans , as many of white settlers migrated to South Africa; with desire of making huge profits in the mining industry. They also introduced technological advances and deep mining techniques so that profits could be increased.

(iv) The workers on the mining fields were African natives, and most of them migrated to South Africa, from other parts and colonial states of African continents.
The mining workers lived a miserable life.

For example:

  1. They were paid ten times lower wages than the white workmen.
  2. Apartheid (Racism): The discovery of gold and diamond in Southern Africa led to apartheid (racism) from as early as 1889.
  3. In 1889 chamber of mines was formed by the European industrial nations mainly to reduce African wages. This was to increase the profitability of mines. This increased racial attacks on African blacks, as they were dissatisfied a lot and lived miserable lives.

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JAC Class 10 Social Science Notes History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

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→ Human societies have become steadily more interlinked.

  • Travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for carrying goods, money, ideas, skills, inventions and even germs and diseases.
  • Indus Valley Civilisation was linked with present West Asia. Cowries was a form of currency from the Maldives.

→ Silk Routes Link the World:

  • The Silk routes proved to be a great source of trade and cultural link between distinct parts of the world.
  • The silk routes were regarded as the most important routes linking the distant parts of the world.
  • These routes existed even before the Christian Era and flourished till the 15th century.
  • The Buddhist preachers, Christian missionaries and later on Muslim preachers used to travel by these routes.
  • Food Travels: Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange. Foods like potatoes, soya, maize, etc., were not known to our ancestors.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Notes History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

→ Conquest, Disease and Trade:

  • The world shrank in the 16th century after the European sailors found a sea route to Asia and America.
  • The Indian subcontinent had been known for bustling trade with goods, people, customs and knowledge. It was a crucial point in their trade network.
  • After the discovery of America, its vast lands, abundant crops and minerals began to transform trade and lives everywhere.
  • Precious metals, particularly silver from mines located in Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
  • The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was underway.
  • The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon but germs of small pox which they carried.
  • America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against such types of diseases.

→ A World Economy Takes Shape:

  • Abolition of the com law.
  • Under pressure from the landowners’ groups, the government restricted the import of foodgrains.
  • After the com laws were scrapped, food could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced in the country.
  • British farmers were unable to compete with imports. Vast areas of land were left uncultivated.
  • As food prices fell, consumption in Britain rose.
  • Faster industrial growth in Britain led to higher incomes and more food imports.

→ The Role of Technology:

  • Technology had a great impact on the transformation of the 19th century world such as railways, steamship and telegraph.
  • Technological advances were often the results of social, political and economic factors.
  • The refrigerated ships helped to transport the perishable food items over a long distance.
  • It facilitated the shipment of frozen meat from America, Australia or New Zealand to different European countries.

→ The Nineteenth Century (1815 to 1914)

  • In the 19th century, economic, political, social, cultural and technological factors interacted in complex ways to transform societies and reshape external relations by European cqnquests.
  • Rinderpest or the cattle plague: It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed Italian soldiers. Rinderpest killed 90% of the cattle and destroyed African livelihoods.
  • Meaning of ‘Indentured labour’ – ‘Indentured labour’ means labour by a bonded labourer under contract to Work for an employer for a specific period of time.
  • It brought higher income for some and poverty for others.
  • In the 19th century indenture was described as a new system of slavery.
  • Living conditions were harsh but workers discovered their own ways to survive.
    • Indian bankers financed export agriculture in Central and South-East Asia
    • Britain had ‘Trade surplus’ with India- Value of British exports were bigger than the value of imports from India.

JAC Class 10 Social Science Notes History Chapter 3 The Making of Global World

→ The Inter War Economic:

  • The First World War was mainly fought in Europe.
  • During this time, the world experienced economic and political instabilities and another miserable war.
  • The First World War was fought between ; two power blocs. On the one hand were the allies – Britain, France, Russia and later joined the US, and on the opposite side- Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ottoman and Turkey.
  • This war lasted for four years.

→ Technological Transformations:

  • Modem industrial war- First-time modem weapons like machine guns, tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons, etc., were used on a massive scale.
  • Millions of soldiers had to be recruited from around the world, and most of them were men of working age.
  • British borrowed large sums from US banks.
  • The war transformed the US from being an international debtor to an international creditor.
  • US recovery was quicker after the war.
  • Important feature of the US economy of 1920’s was mass production.

→ The Great Depression:
Factors responsible for depression

  • Agricultural overproduction made the price of agriculture products slumping.
  • Many countries financed their investment through the loan they got from the USA.
  • American capitalists stopped all loans to European countries.
  • In Europe, it led to a failure of some major banks and collapse of currencies like Sterling.
  • Doubling the import duties by the USA, which hit the world trade badly.

→ Bretton Woods Institutions:

  • To deal with external surpluses and deficits a conference was held in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, the USA.
  • International Monetary Fund and World Bank were set up to finance post war restructuring.
  • The post war international economic system is known as Bretton Woods system.
  • This system was based on fixed exchange rates.
  • IMF and World Bank are referred to as Bretton Woods Twins.
  • The US has an effective right of veto over key IMF and World Bank.

→ Decolonisation and Independence:

  • Most developing countries did not benefit from the fast growth of Western economies in the 1950s and 60s.
  • They organised themselves as a group, the group of 77 or G-77 to demand a New International Economic Order (NIEO).
    • The relQcation of industry to low wage countries stimulated world trade and capital flow.
    • Because of New economic policy, china became a favourite destination for the MNCs to invest.
  • It was a system that would give them real control over their natural resources, more development assistance, fairer prices for I raw materials and better access for their manufactured goods in developed countries, markets.
  • In last two decades, the economy of the world has changed a lot as countries like China, India and Brazil have achieved rapid economic development.

→ End of Bretton Woods and the Beginning of ‘Globalisation’

  • The US dollar could not maintain in relation to gold
  • It led collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates and introduction of floating exchange rates.
  • 1970’s MNCs also started shifting production to low-wage countries.
  • The relocation of industries to low wage countries stimulated the world trade and capital flow.

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