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The Age of Industrialisation Short Questions 1. What is meant by proto-industrialisation? Answer: Proto-industrialisation was the early phase of industrial production carried out in villages before factories came up. 2. Why did merchants move to the countryside in the 17th and 18th centuries? Answer: Merchants moved to avoid restrictions of urban guilds and expand production. […]

The Making of a Global World Short Answer Questions 1. What were the silk routes mainly used for? Answer: The silk routes were used for trade and cultural exchanges between Asia, Europe, and Africa. 2. Which food crop from America saved Europe’s poor from hunger? Answer: The potato saved Europe’s poor from hunger. 3. What […]

Nationalism in India Short Questions 1. What does the term “satyagraha” mean? Answer: Satyagraha means the insistence on truth and non-violent resistance against injustice. 2. Who led the peasants of Awadh in their movement against landlords? Answer: Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, led the peasants of Awadh. 3. Which Act of 1919 allowed detention without trial? […]

The Rise of Nationalism in Europe Short Questions 1. Who prepared the series of four prints visualising democratic and social republics in 1848? Answer: Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared them. 2. What did the shattered symbols on the ground in Sorrieu’s print represent? Answer: They represented the destruction of absolutist institutions. 3. Which ideas […]

Print Culture and The Modern World Short Questions 1. Where did the earliest kind of print technology develop? Answer: In China, Japan, and Korea. 2. Which is the oldest Japanese book printed in AD 868? Answer: The Buddhist Diamond Sutra. 3. Who invented the first printing press in Europe? Answer: Johann Gutenberg. 4. Which was […]

The Age of Industrialisation Write in brief 1. Explain the following: a) Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny. Answer: The Spinning Jenny, invented by James Hargreaves in 1764, could spin several threads at once. This reduced the demand for manual labour in spinning. Women who survived on hand spinning feared loss of livelihood, […]

The Making of a Global World Write in brief 1. 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. Answer:  From Asia: The Silk Routes connected Asia, Europe and Africa. Along with silk from China, pottery, textiles and […]

Nationalism in India Write in brief 1. Explain: a) Why growth of nationalism in the colonies is linked to an anti-colonial movement. Answer: The growth of modern nationalism in colonies like India was connected to the struggle against colonial rule. The feeling of being oppressed under colonialism created a shared bond among different groups. People […]

The Rise of Nationalism in Europe Write in brief 1. Write a note on: a) Guiseppe Mazzini Answer: Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary who founded secret societies like Young Italy and Young Europe. He believed that Italy should be a united republic and that nations were God’s natural units. His ideas inspired revolutionaries in […]

Print Culture and The Modern World Write in brief 1. Give reasons for the following: a) Woodblock print only came to Europe after 1295. Answer: Woodblock print came to Europe after 1295 because Marco Polo returned from China that year and brought back the knowledge of woodblock printing, which had already been developed there. b) […]