Class 10 Social Science: The Making of a Global World important questions

The Making of a Global World is a chapter of Class 10 Social Science for the Andhra Pradesh State Board. These 13 questions are marked Very Important, Important or Practice, and each answer has been checked by our team. Use them to revise, not as a prediction of what will come in the exam.

1. Practice · 1 marks

   1. Indentured labour migration from India was abolished in 1) 1920 2) 1921 3) 1922 4) 1923

   2) 1921.

2. Practice · 1 marks

   2. Which economic crisis do these clues point to: 1929–30, fall in prices, decline in production?

   The Great Depression.

3. Practice · 1 marks

   3. Expand IMF.

   International Monetary Fund.

4. Practice · 1 marks

   4. What is El Dorado in South America famous for?

   It is the legendary (fabled) city of gold that Europeans searched for.

5. Important · 2 marks

   5. Mention the movements (flows) within international economic exchange.

   1) The flow of trade: the exchange of goods. 2) The flow of labour: the migration of people in search of work. 3) The flow of capital: investment over long distances.

6. Practice · 1 marks

   6. Arrange these countries from east to west: Egypt, China, England, Japan.

   Japan, China, Egypt, England.

7. Important · 2 marks

   7. What is meant by the G-77 countries?

   The G-77 is a group of developing countries (originally 77) that came together after decolonisation. They felt the Bretton Woods institutions (IMF and World Bank) did not serve their interests, and they demanded a New International Economic Order (NIEO): real control over their natural resources, more development aid, fairer prices for raw materials and better access to markets in developed countries.

8. Practice · 1 marks

   8. The Great Depression began in the year ______.

   1929.

9. Practice · 1 marks

   9. Which disease helped the European conquest of the Americas?

   Smallpox. The original inhabitants had no immunity to it, and it killed huge numbers of them.

10. Important · 2 marks

    10. How did rinderpest affect the people and economy of Africa?

    Rinderpest, a cattle disease, reached Africa in the late 1880s and killed about 90% of the cattle. Africans depended on cattle for their livelihood, so they lost their wealth. Colonial governments and European planters used this to take over land and force Africans to work for wages, strengthening colonial control.

11. Practice · 1 marks

    11. Which food crop introduced from the Americas became very important in Ireland?

    The potato. When disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, about a million people in Ireland died of starvation.

12. Practice · 1 marks

    12. Name the cattle disease that devastated Africa in the 1890s.

    Rinderpest.

13. Important · 2 marks

    13. Mention the consequences of scrapping the Corn Laws in Britain.

    After the Corn Laws were scrapped, cheaper food grains were imported into Britain. British agriculture could not compete, so large areas were left uncultivated and many people lost work in the villages. They moved to cities or migrated overseas. Food prices fell, consumption rose, and more land in other countries (Eastern Europe, Russia, America, Australia) was cleared to grow food for Britain.