Economic Policies of the British: UPSC Previous Year Questions (Modern History)
1 previous year UPSC Prelims question on Economic Policies of the British (Modern History). Choose an option to see the answer and explanation.
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UPSC 2019Modern History · Economic Policies of the British
Q1. Which one of the following groups of plants was domesticated in the ‘New World’ and introduced into the ‘Old World’?
Explanation
The Old World refers to the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas. The New World refers to the Americas, including North and South America, which were "discovered" by Europeans after Christopher Columbus’s voyages in the late 15th century. Tobacco, cocoa, and rubber were domesticated in the ‘New World’ and introduced into the ‘Old World’ through the European explorers in the late medieval or early modern era. The Columbian exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Exam tip:
Sugarcane, cotton, and wheat are all Old World crops -- deduced entirely through ecological fit, civilizational association, and climate logic. Giving option A as correct.
Answer key for these questions
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UPSC year
Correct answer
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2019
(a) Tobacco, cocoa and rubber
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This page covers 1 previous year UPSC Prelims GS Paper-I questions on Economic Policies of the British (Modern History), asked from 1996 to 2024. Each has the correct answer and an explanation.
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