The Making Of A Global World Very Short Questions And Answers
Question 1. Which disease spread like wildfire in Africa in the 1890s?
Answer: Cattle plague (Rinderpest)
Question 2. Which food travelled to the West from China to be called Spaghetti?
Answer: Noodles
Question 3. What were Canal Colonies?
Answer: Irrigated areas
Question 4. What was Rinderpest?
Answer: It was a cattle disease in Africa.
Question 5. What was the Bretton Woods system?
Answer: It was a post-war international economic system.
Question 6. What did indentured labour mean?
Answer: Bonded Labour
Question 7. Which was the fabled city of gold?
Answer: El Dorado
Question 8. Who adopted the concept of assembly lines to produce automobiles?
Answer: Henry Ford
Question 9. The descendant of indentured workers is a Nobel Prize-winning writer. He is __________.
Answer: V. S. Naipaul
Question 10. The Great Depression began in _________.
Answer: 1929
Question 11. The Chutney music was popular in _________.
Answer: Trinidad and Guyana
Question 12. What was the aim of the post-war international economic system?
Answer: The aim was to preserve economic stability and full employment in the industrial world.
Question 13. Which institutions are referred to as Bretton Woods twins?
Answer: IMF and World Bank
Question 14. What MNCs?
Answer: MNCs (Multinational Corporations) are large companies that operate in more than one country.