Exercise 1

Observe the given picture taken from New Orleans, Illustrated London News $1851$:

What does the picture represent?

“The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conqueror was not a conventional military weapon at all.” Justify the above statement by giving two reasons.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.

From the following, identify the correct statements relating to indentured labour migration from India.  

I. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Indian labourers went to work in plantations, mines, and road and railway construction projects around the world.  

II. Most of the indentured labour came from present-day regions of northern and western India such as Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Rajasthan.  

III. The indentured network which has often been described as a ‘new system of slavery' for the labourers found the most pathetic and terrible conditions of living and working on their arrival in places like the Caribbean Islands, Mauritius, Fiji, Ceylon and Malaya.  

IV. Some indentured labourers found innovative ways of expressing themselves by blending their own cultural ethos with that of the new place. 

On the political map of Africa identify:

Gold Coast, Northern Rhodesia, Egypt, Morocco, Anglo-Egyptian, Sudan, Madagascar.

Read the statements and select the correct answer from the options given below:

Statement I: The Bretton Woods System came up during the post World War Period.

Statement II: The industrial nations had a massive growth of trade and incomes.

What is referred to as G-$77$ Countries? In what ways G-$77$ can be seen as a reaction to the activities of the Bretton Woods twins?

“Traders and travellers introduced new crops to lands they travelled." Substantiate this statement with illustrations.