NCERT Solution: The Making of a Global World
1. This reduced the shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe.
2. The poor in Europe could now consume a more varied diet.
3. To the earlier, monotony of Bread and Potatoes many, not all could add meat, butter or egg.
4. Better living conditions promoted social peace within the country and support for imperialism abroad.
1. It was the first modern industrial was which involved industrial nations.
2. Machine guns, tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons etc are used on a massive scale.
3. Unthinkable death and destruction.
4. Most of the people killed and injured were man of working age.
5. Declined the household income.
6. Men were forced to join in the war.
7. Women slapped into undertake jobs which they were not used to.
1. The economy depression immediately affected Indian Trade, as India’s exports and imports nearly halved between 1928-1934
2. Agriculture prices fell sharply, but the colonial government refused to reduce revenues. Peasants producing for the world markets were worst hit.
3. Raw jute was produced, processed in the industries to make gunny bags. Its exports collapsed and prices fell by 60% peasants of Bengal fell into debt traps.
4. Peasants used up their savings mortgaged lands and sold their precious jewelry to meet their expanses.
In the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Indians and Chinese laborers
went to work on plantations in mines and in mines and in road and railways
construction projects around the world.
1. In India, indentures laborers were hired under contracts which promises
return travel to India after they had worked for five years on plantations.
2. Gradually in India cottage industries declined, land rents rose, land were
cleared for mines and plantations. All this affected the lines of the poor. They
failed to pay their rents become indebted, and were forced to migrate in search
of work.
3. The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean
islands, Trinidad, Guyana, Surinam, Mauritius, Fiji and Ceylon and Malaya.
4. Recruitment was done by agent engaged by employers and paid small commission.
1. A well known pioneer of mass production was the car manufacturer, ‘Henry Ford’.
2. He adopted an assembly line technique of a slaughter house.
3. He realized that the ‘Assembly line’ method would allow a faster and cheaper way of producing vehicles.
4. This method forced workers to repeat a single task mechanically and continuously
5. This was a way of increasing output per worker by speeding up the pace of work.
6. This doubling go daily wages was considered ‘best cost – cutting decision’ he had ever made