In which year Vasco da Gama came to India?

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

Statement I : Potatoes had been discovered by the European in the Americas.

Statement II: Poor people in Ireland were dependent on potatoes to escape starvation in the 19th century.

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

Statement – I: After the corn laws were scrapped the condition of peasants deteriorated as they were unable to compete with imports.

Statement – II: Around the world in Eastern Europe, Russia, America, and Australia lands were cleared, and food production expanded to meet the British demand.

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

What does the picture represent?

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the countries between the silk route?

A. It stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean.

B. The countries lie in between are China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and Italy.

Read the statement carefully and choose the correct options.

Statement $1:$Silk Road routes existed only over land, connecting together vast region of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.

Statement $2:$ America's original inhabitants were the American Indians.

Statement $3:$ Food like potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maizes, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes were brought to the American from Europe.

The name ‘silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound _____ silk cargoes. (Chinese / British)

Which of the following were transported along the silk route$?$

$1.$ Chines silk and pottery.

$2.$ Textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia.

$3.$ Precious metal likes gold and silver from Europe.

Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:

     Column A                                                                                    Column B

$1.$ Armenian and Persian merchants                                              $i.$ Trade links with Southeast Asian ports.

$2.$ Surat on Gujarat coast                                                              $ii.$Took goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, eastern Persia and Central Asia.

$3.$ Hooghly in Bengal                                                                    $iii.$ Connected India to the Gulf and Red Sea Ports.

Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of the column B and select the correct choice:

    Column A                                   Column B

$1.$ Asphyxiation                            $i.$ The reclaiming of marshy, submerged or other wasteland for settlement, cultivation or other use

$2.$ Akharas                                  $ii.$  Suffocation due to lack of oxygen supply.

$3.$ Depressed class                    $iii.$ Traditional wrestling school

$4.$ Reclamation                          $iv.$  Lower caste and untouchable

Match the items of column A and corresponding items of column B and the select the correct choice:

   Column A                                                                                            Column B

$1.$ Silk routes                                                                                      $i.$ Areas irrigated by the new canals in British India.

$2.$  EI Dorado                                                                                     $ii.$ Pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world 

$3.$  Canal Colonies                                                                            $iii.$ A fast-spreading disease of cattle plague.

$4.$  Rinderpast                                                                                   $iv.$ Fabled city of gold.