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Which of the following statements is/are correct about the silk routes?

a. Several silk routes have been identified by historians that lay over land and sea.
b. Silk routes are known to have existed since before the Christian era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century.
c. Chinese pottery, textiles, gold and silver travelled from China and spices from India and Southeast Asia to Europe.

Who discovered America?

Ireland's poorest peasants were so dependent on which of the following common foods brought from America that when disease destroyed its crop in the mid 1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation?

Which of the following was/were extracted from mines located in present day Peru and Mexico which enhanced Europe's wealth and financed its trade with Asia?

El Dorado, the fabled city of gold, was believed to be in

Which of the following two countries were among the world's richest and were also pre-eminent in Asian trade until the eighteenth century?

Which of the following is correct about corn laws?

Where were the canal colonies established by the British government?

Which of the following countries became major food-grain exporters to Britain after the corn laws were scrapped in the mid-nineteenth century?

Where did the European powers meet in 1885 to complete the carving up of Africa between them?

Which of the following countries took over some of the colonies held by Spain in Africa in the late 1890s?

The local economy of which of the following was affected severely by the fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest in the 1890s?

Which of the following was not one of the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants?

In which of the following places was the annual Muharram procession transformed into a riotous carnival called 'Hosay' (for Imam Hussain), in which workers of all races and religions joined?

Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in the British market?

Which of the following were exported from India to Britain in the nineteenth century?

a. Food grains
b. Raw cotton
c. Indigo

Britain's trade surplus in India helped pay the 'home charges'. Which of the following is not included in 'home charges'?

Which of the following countries was a part of the central powers during the first world war?

Which of the following are known as the Bretton Woods institutions?

a. World Health Organisation
b. United Nations
c. International Monetary Fund
d. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The axis powers in the second world war were