Observe the given picture taken from New Orleans, Illustrated London News :
What does the picture represent?
Important Questions on The Making of a Global World
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.
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.
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.
The First World War was an unusual war because:
I. It involved the world’s leading industrial nations.
II. Weapons of mass destruction were used at a large scale.
III. British policies were responsible for the outbreak of the war.
IV. The world was divided into two power blocks.
