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    Which of the following disease played important role in conquest of America?
    Solution
    The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century. European conquest was not just a result of superior firepower. In fact, the most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon at all. It was the germs such as those of smallpox that they carried on their person. Because of their long isolation, Americas 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 Europeans reaching there. It killed and decimated whole communities, paving the way for conquest.
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    All through history, human societies have become steadily more ___________
    Solution
    All through history, human societies have become steadily more interlinked. From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution. They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions, and even germs and diseases. As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilisations with present-day West Asia. For more than a millennia, cowries (the Hindi cowdi or seashells, used as a form of currency)from the Maldives found their way to China and East Africa. The long-distance spread of disease-carrying germs may be traced as far back as the seventh century. By the thirteenth century it had become an unmistakable link.
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    Great Irish Famine of 1845-49 happened due to scarcity of
    Solution
    Sometimes the new crops could make the difference between life and death. Europes poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato. Irelands poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation. 
    During the Great Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1849), around 1,000,000people died of starvation in Ireland, and double the number emigrated in search of work.
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    Consider the following statements
    (1) Unlike an ordinary labourer who works on the fixed wages and free to work, an indentured labourer is bound to the employer by contract.
    (2) In 19th century, the concept of indentured labour was introduced as a system of slavery.
    (3) Most Indian indentured labourers came from regions where unemployment was high.
    (4) An indentured or bounded labourer always worked willingly and recruited by the agents.
    Which of the above statements are correct?
    Solution
    An indentured or bounded labourer never worked willingly. They were recruited by the agents who gave them false promises of good living in foreign lands. But when the labourers actually worked and experienced the truth, then, they worked unwillingly.
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    Which among the following is the best example for the vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world?
    Solution
    The Silk Route is the best example for the vibrant premodern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The silk route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Question 6
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    Great potato famine happened in which country?
    Solution
    Sometimes the new crops could make the difference between life and death. Europes poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato. Irelands poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation. 
    During the Great Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1849), around 1,000,000people died of starvation in Ireland, and double the number emigrated in search of work.
  • Question 7
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    As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked  Indus valley civilization with _______
    Solution
    All through history, human societies have become steadily more interlinked. From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution. They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions, and even germs and diseases. As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilisations with present-day West Asia. For more than a millennia, cowries (the Hindi cowdi or seashells, used as a form of currency)from the Maldives found their way to China and East Africa. The long-distance spread of disease-carrying germs may be traced as far back as the seventh century. By the thirteenth century it had become an unmistakable link.
  • Question 8
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    Name the organization that was established with the objective of dealing with external surpluses and deficits of its members 
    Solution
    The main aim of the post-war international economic system was to preserve economic stability and full employment in the industrial world. Its framework was agreed upon at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA.
    The Bretton Woods conference established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to deal with external surpluses and deficits of its member nations.
    The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (popularly known as the World Bank) was set up to finance post-war reconstruction.
  • Question 9
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    People travelled in search of _________
    Solution
    People travelled in search of New lands and people.
  • Question 10
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    In which city European powers met to decide the carving of African territories?
    Solution
    Look at a map of Africa. You will see some countries borders run straight, as if they were drawn using a ruler. Well, in fact this was almost how rival European powers in Africa drew up the borders demarcating their respective territories. In 1885 the big European powers met in Berlin to complete the carving up of Africa between them. Britain and France made vast additions to their overseas territories in the late nineteenth century. Belgium and Germany became new colonial powers. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by Spain.

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