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1. The active coastal trade around 3000 BCE linked the Indus Valley Civilisation with which region?

2. What were cowries, widely used in trade from the Maldives to China and East Africa?

3. Which trade routes connected Asia with Europe and North Africa before the fifteenth century?

4. Besides silk, which items also travelled along the silk routes?

5. Which religion spread from eastern India through intersecting points on the silk routes?

6. Which food is believed to have travelled west from China to become spaghetti?

7. Which continent introduced potatoes, maize and chillies to Europe and Asia?

8. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s was caused by:

9. Precious metals, particularly silver, from which regions enhanced Europe’s wealth in the sixteenth century?

10. Which deadly disease carried by Europeans decimated America’s original inhabitants?

11. Which commodity was mainly grown by African slaves on American plantations for European markets by the eighteenth century?

12. In the nineteenth century, economists identified three types of movements in international economic exchanges.Which of the following is NOT one of them?

13. What were the Corn Laws in Britain?

14. What happened to British agriculture after the Corn Laws were scrapped?

15. Nearly how many people emigrated from Europe to America and Australia in the nineteenth century?

16. Which Indian region saw “Canal Colonies” created by the British to grow wheat and cotton for export?

17. Between 1820 and 1914 world trade multiplied by how many times?

18. Refrigerated ships first made possible the export of which product from America and Australia to Europe?

19. The Berlin Conference of 1885 was held to:

20. Rinderpest, a cattle plague in the 1890s, killed about what percentage of African cattle?