Time Left: 600 sec

1. Rinderpest entered Africa from which region?

2. In late-nineteenth-century Africa, one method to push Africans into the labour market was:

3. Indian indentured labourers were hired under contracts that promised return travel after how many years?

4. Most Indian indentured workers came from which present-day regions?

5. Which Caribbean festival evolved from the Muharram procession among Indian workers?

6. Which music form in Trinidad and Guyana reflects post-indenture cultural fusion?

7. When was the system of indentured labour migration abolished?

8. Which Indian banking groups financed export agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia?

9. By the 1870s India’s share of cotton textile exports had dropped to below:

10. Which product became India’s single largest export for a while in the 1820s?

11. Britain had a trade surplus with India.This surplus was used to:

12. The First World War was fought between which two main blocs?

13. How many were killed in the First World War?

14. During the war, women stepped into jobs earlier expected only of men because:

15. The war transformed the US from an international debtor to:

16. After the war Britain was burdened with:

17. In 1921 what proportion of British workers was out of work?

18. Who pioneered the assembly line for car production in the 1920s US?

19. What was the world’s first mass-produced car?

20. Ford doubled the daily wage to $5 in January 1914 because: