Wednesday, September 8, 2010

       Making Of the Global World
1.      Food – an example of long distance culture exchange
·         Spaghetti and noodles
·         Pasta
·         Foods in India
·         Dependence on potato
·         Discovery of India
2.      The most powerful weapon of Spanish consequences
·         Germs of smallpox
·         No immunity
·         Spread of disease
·         Way for conquest
3.      Why thousand fled from Europe to America?
·         Poverty ad hunger
·         Overcrowded cities
·         Deadly disease
·         Religious conflicts

4.      Flows within international economic exchange
·         Flows of trade
·         Flows of capital
·         Flows of Labour

5.      Corn Laws: Pressure from landed groups- restricted import of corn
       Effects
·         Industrialists- unhappy with corn law- corn produced less-prices increased.
·         Peasants were unhappy- land utilized- good sum of money.
·         Urban dwellers were unhappy.
6.      Role of Technology
·         Railways, steamships and telegraph
·         Technological advances


7.      Problems in carrying live animals on ships
·         Lot of space
·         Died in voyage
·         Became unfit

8. Advantages of carrying slaughtered animals
·         Reduced shipping costs
·         Lowered meat prices
·         More varied diet
9. Methods to recruit African labour by Europeans
·         Imposing heavy taxes
·         Changing inheritance laws
·         Rinderpest: It was a cattle disease.
10. What was it? How it reached Africa? Why?
·         Carried by infected cattle from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers
·         Reached Africa’s Atlantic Coast in 1892.
Effects:-
·         Lass of cattle- destruction of African livelihoods
·         Monopoly over scare resources
·         Control over cattle.
 
11. Uses of Britain’s trade surplus with India
·         Balancing trade deficits
·         Play ‘home charges’
·         Pay interests

 12. Significance of World War 1
·         Use of modern weapons/ First modern industrial war
·         Large number of solders from around World
·         Large transportation
·         Massive destruction

 13. Effects of 1st World war
·         Mass death and destruction
·         Reduction in workforce of Europe
·         Restructuring of industries
·         Reorganization of society
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14.      Effects of Economic Boom(during war)
·         Production increased
·         Employment increased

15.      Methods followed by Henry ford for mass production.
·         Assembly line
·         Doubling wages
·         Banning trade unions

16.      Impacts of Assembly line method
·         Copying in Europe
·         Low cost and prices
·         More affordability
·         Mass production
·         Demand for work increased

17.      Factors for great depression
·         Agriculture overproduction
·         Loans from US
·         Withdrawal of US loans

18.      Effects of Great depression on India
·         Halved import and export
·         Prices crashed
·         Indebt ness of peasants and farmers
·         Refusal for reduction in revenue

19.      How peasants coped up with GD?
·         Increased peasants indebt ness
·         Used their savings
·         Mortgaged lands
·         Sold jewellary

20.      Lessons for USA from inter- war economic experience
·         Mass production by full employment
·         Economic links with outside world

21.      Influences that shaped post- war reconstruction
·         US dominance
·         Dominance of the Soviet union

22.      Aims of Bretton wood system
·         Role IMF
·         Role of world bank

23.      Effects of Bretton woods system
·         Growth of incomes and trade
·         Stale growth
·         Spread of technology and enterprises

24.      Factors for end of Bretton woods system
·         Rising cost of overseas involvement
·         No command of US dollars
·         Focus over developing countries
·         Fixed exchange rate

25.      Factors helping China a position in World Market
·         Low wages, cheap labour
·         Low cost structure of Chinese goods
·         Hardworking workers

26.      After corn laws scrapped – effects on Britain
·          British agriculture unable to compete
·         Vast area remain uncultivated
·          Unemployment
·         Migration

27.      Role of Silk route in Globalization
·         Connecting the Word
·         Trade and commence
·         Culture exchange

28.      Role of conquest in globalization
·         Industries
·         Introduction of English language
·         Exchange of knowledge
·         Establishment of Railways

29.      What were the ancient or pre-modern factors which helped in globalization
·         Travelers
·         Traders
·         Priests and Pilgrims
·         Germs and disease

30.      3 types of Flows
·         Flow of trade
·         Flow of labour
·         Flow of capital

31.      How a global agriculture economy took place
·         Flow of trade
·         Flow of labour
·         Flow of capital

32.      Factors which led to making of a global world
·         Railways
·         Telegraph
·         Steam ships
·         Internet

33.      Effects of reinterprets
·         Rest ruction of cattle
·         Destruction of livelihood
·         Monopolization of cattles
·         Conquering part of Africa

 THE MAKING OF THE GLOBAL WORLD
                               1 mark  question
Q.1 what   is   globalisation ?
Q.2 how  globalisation  was  carried  in  ancient  times ?
Q.3 what  do  you  understand  by ‘cowries’ ?
Q.4 how  silk  route  got  its  name ?
Q.5 which  area did  the  silk  route  joined ?
Q.6 how  can  say  that  silk  route  helped  in  cultural  exchange ? ( any 2 point)
Q.7 how  america  entered  the  world  of  food  exchange ?
Q.8 what  is  ‘the  fabled  city  of  gold’ ?
Q.9 how  the  spanish  conqured  america ?
Q.10 who  is  dissenter ?
Q.11 what  is  ‘corns  law’ ?
Q.12 in  which  countries  the  lands  were  cleared  and            food  production  expanded  to  meet  the  british  demand ?
Q.13 mention  the  areas  from  where  indentured  labours  were  taken ?
Q.14 in  early  20th  century  the  main  product  of  the  trade , 60%  of  the  trade , compramised  what ?
Q.15 what  is  the  advantages  of  refrigarated  ships ?
Q.16 from  where  the  animals  were  collected  to  be  slaughtered ?
Q.17 where  the  big  european  powers  met  in  1885  to  complete  the  carving  up  of  africa  between  them ?
Q.18 why  some  countries  in  africa  have  straight  borders ?
Q.19 what  is  rinderpest ?
Q.20 what  was  the  problem  of  europeans  in  africa ?
Q.21 what  were  the  hopes  of  europe  in  africa ?
Q.22 what  attracted  europe ?
Q.23 what  were  the  steps  taken  by  european , before  rinderpest  came  to  tackle  the  problem  of  less  workers ?
Q.24 when  rinderpest  arrived  in  africa ?
Q.25 how  rinderpest  came  to  africa ?
Q.26 what  was  the  main  aim  of  the  europeans  to  do  so ?
Q.27 who  is  an  indentured  labour ?
Q.28 from  where  in  india  the  indentured  labours  were  taken ?
Q.29 what  were  the  main  destinations  of  the  indian  indentured  labourers ?
Q.30 what  were  the  false  information  given  to  the  workers ?
Q.31 what  do  you  understand  by  ‘new  system  of  slavery’ ?
Q.32 what  is  hossay ?
Q.33 what  do  you  mean  by  rasta  farianism ?
Q.34 what  is  chutney  music ?
Q.35 how  indentured  labourers  are  connected  to  globalisation ?
Q.36 why  do  the  indians , shivnarine  chanderpaul  and  ramnaresh  sarwan  play  for  west  indies ?
Q.37 when  was  the  process  of  indenturing  labours  abolished ?
Q.38 who  are  the  shikaripuri  shroffs ?
Q.39 who  are  nattukottai  chettiars ?
Q.40 which  entrepreneur  ventured  beyond  the  colonies  of  europe ?
Q.41 ‘british  had  a  trade  surplus with  india’. What  do  you  mean  by  trade  surplus  here ?
Q.42 which  was  the  first  modern  industrial  war ?
Q.43 during  the  first  world  war  which , who  were  allies  and  who  were  central  powers ?
Q.44 after  the   first  world  war , which  was  the  only  country  in  the  war , which  was  gaining  instead  of  loosing ?
Q.45 henry  ford  adapted  the  assembly   line  of  which  slaughter  house ?
Q.46 where  henry  ford  setup  its  new  car  plant ?
Q.47 which  model  of  car  did  henry  ford  made ?
Q.48 which  was  world’s   first  mass  produced  car ?
Q.49 why  henry  ford  doubled  the  wages  of  workers ?
Q.50 why  henry  ford  banned  trade  unions ?
Q.51 what  were  worst  affected  by  the  great  depression ?
Q.52 why  urban  india  was  safe  from  depression ?
Q.53 who  were  the  axis  powers  and  allied  powers  during  the  second  world  war ?
Q.54 what  were  the  two  realisation  of  america ?
Q.55 what  were  the  two  crucial  influences  that  shaped  post-war  re-construction?
Q.56 what  is  bretton  woods  institution ?
Q.57 which  two  institutions  were  established  by  the  bretton  wood  institution ?
Q.58 what  is  tariff ?
Q.59 what  is  fixed  exchange  rate ?
Q.60 what  is  floating  exchange  rate ?
Q.61 why  bretton  woods  institution  began  to  shift  their  attention  more  towards  developing  countries  instead  of  developed  countries  in  1950’s ?
Q.62 what  do  you  understand  by  nieo ?
Q.63 what  were  the  aims  of  g-77 ?
Q,64 why  did  system  of  fixed  exchange  rate  collpsed ?
Q.65 why  most  of  the  tv’s , mobile  phones , and  toys  in  market  are  made  in  china ?
Q.66 what  are  exchange  rate ?

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