CBSE - The Making of a Global World

1 The Making of a Global World Which one of the following did not travel along the silk routes in the pre-modern world?

(1) Christian missionaries
(2) Traders
(3) Tourists
(4) Muslim preachers

2 The Making of a Global World From which century China is said to have restricted overseas contacts and retreated into isolation?

(1) 14th
(2) 15th
(3) 16th
(4) 17th

3 The Making of a Global World When did the global agricultural economy start?

(1) 1894
(2) 1890
(3) 1892
(4) 1891

4 The Making of a Global World The worldwide spread of the MNCs in the 1950s and 1960s was partly due to :

(1) US businesses expanded in these years
(2) Western Europe and Japan became powerful industrial economies
(3) High import tariffs imposed by different governments forced the MNCs to locate their manufacturing operations and become domestic operators in many countries
(4) All the above

5 The Making of a Global World What is El Dorado in South America?

(1) It was the place where Columbus landed
(2) Where silver mines were located
(3) A fabled city of gold
(4) A famous slave market

6 The Making of a Global World  The Group of 77 or G - 77 was :

(1) A group formed by western nations to exploit the developing nations
(2) A group formed by the developing countries to demand a new international economic order
(3) A protest against the western economic policies
(4) All the above

7 The Making of a Global World The Second World War was a war fought for .

(1) 8 years, from 1930-1938
(2) 6 years, from 1939-1945
(3) 5 years, from 1939-1944
(4) 10 years, from 1939-1949

8 The Making of a Global World Who among the following was a well-known pioneer of mass production?

(1) Jamshedji Tata
(2) G.D. Birla
(3) Henry Ford
(4) None of the above

9 The Making of a Global World According to which famous economist, Indian gold exports promoted global economic recovery?

(1) Paul Wood
(2) John Maynard Keynes
(3) Amartya Sen
(4) David Jones

10 The Making of a Global World  The main reason why the world "shrank" in the 1500s is :

(1) Emergence of Europe as the centre of world trade
(2) Chinas retreat into isolation and its reduced role in politics
(3) Slaves working in plantations, growing sugar and cotton for European markets
(4) European sailors found a sea route to Asia, and also crossed the Atlantic and discovered America.