Class 7 Social Science: Chapter 02 From Trade to Power - Questions and Answers
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Chapter 02: From Trade to Power
From Trade to Power - Textual Questions and Answers & Model Questions
1. What is known as Black gold?
Answer: Pepper
2. Why did Europeans come to India?
Answer: For the purpose of trade
3. Who are the foreigners who came to India for trade?
Answer: Portuguese, Dutch, English, French.
4. Who was the first European to come to India?
Answer: Portuguese
5. When did the Turks conquer Constantinople?
Answer: In 1453.
6. Who is the ruler of Calicut (Kozhikode)?
Answer: Zamorin.
7. When did the Portuguese come to India?
Answer: In 1498
8. The Portuguese reached the …………..
Answer: Kappadu near Calicut
9. Who was the leader of the Portuguese?
Answer: Vasco da Gama
10. Who were known as Parankis?
Answer: Portuguese
11. Other sailors from Portugal came to Kerala for trade. Who are they?
Answer: Almeida and Albuquerque
12. Which were the Trade centres of the Portuguese in India?
Answer: Goa, Daman and Diu
13. Who constructed St. Angelo Fort at Kannar and Kottappuram?
Answer: Portuguese
14. St. Angelo Fort situated in which district?
Answer: Kannur district.
15. Which are the Forts constructed by the Portuguese in Kerala?
Answer: Saint Angelo Fort at Kannur and Kottappuram fort in Thrissur.
16. Portuguese were also known by which name?
Answer: Parankis.
17. What are the agricultural crops introduced by the Portuguese?
Answer: Agricultural crops like pineapple, guava, pa[aya, red chilly, cashew, tobacco etc.
18. Who is the admiral of Zamorin’s naval force?
Answer: Kunhali Marakkars.
19. Which is the European force that reached India after the Portuguese?
Answer: The Dutch
20. Which are the chief trade centres of the Dutch?
Answer: Kollam and Kochi
21. Who was the governor of Dutch?
Answer: Van Rheede
22. Who initiated the completion of Hortus Malabaricus?
Answer: Van Rheede, a Dutch Governor.
23. What is the topic/subject of the book ‘Hortus Malabaricus’?
Answer: The medicinal plants at Kerala.
24. Van Rheede completed the book ‘Hortus Malabaricus’ with the help of -----------
Answer: Itti Achuthan Vaidyar
25. Which king of Travancore fought the Dutch over trade disputes?
Answer: Marthanda Verma
26. When did Marthanda Varma defeat the Dutch in the battle of Kulachal?
Answer: In 1741
27. Who were known as Lanthans?
Answer: The Dutch
28. Which is the European force came to India after the Dutch?
Answer: The English
29. What was the name of the Company formed in England to trade with India?
Answer: The English East India company
30. In which year was the English East India Company was formed?
Answer: In 1600
31. What was the first trade centre of the East India Company in India?
Answer: Surat in Gujarat.
32. What were the major trading centres of the English?
Answer: Surat, Madras, Chennai, Calcutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai).
33. Who introduced the subsidiary Alliance?
Answer: Lord Wellesley
34. Who introduced the doctrine of lapse?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
35. When did the French East India Company establish?
Answer: In 1664.
36. What are the chief trade centres at the French?
Answer: Pondichery (Puducherry), Mahe and Karaikal. Pondichery was their headquarters.
37. The series of conflicts between the French and the English in South India was known as -------------
Answer: Carnatic wars.
38. When did the British defeated Siraj-Ud-Daulah?
Answer: In 1757
39. When did the company capture power in Bengal?
Answer: In 1764
40. Who is the Nawab of Oudh?
Answer: Shuja – Ud – Daulah.
41. Who introduced ‘Subsidiary Alliance’?
Answer: Lord Wellesley.
42. Who executes the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie.
43. Which princely states entered into the ‘Subsidiary Alliance’?
Answer: Hyderabad, Thanjavore and Indore.
44. Almost all of India came under British rule by _______
Answer: 1857
45. What was the common feature of the European trading centres?
Answer: All trading centres were adjacent to the coastal areas.
46. Which states were annexed under the doctrine of lapse?
Answer: Udaipur, Jhansi, Nagpur, Sambalpur and Satara
47. The Turk’s conquest of Constantinople necessitated the Europeans to discover a sea route to India. Why?
Answer: The Turks conquered Constantinople Between Asia and Europe
Trade was disrupted. It is in this context that the sea route to India is a
Attempts were made to find a trade route. With the discovery of a trade route by sea Portuguese and Dutch, English and French for trade India
48. What is the reason that the Portuguese could not establish many trade centres in India?
Answer:
• They did not have enough economic and military resources to compete with other European powers.
• They faced resistance from native forces.
49. 'The contact with the Portuguese created a lasting impact on our social,
cultural and economic life’- Evaluate the statement.
Answer: Agricultural crops like pineapple, guava, papaya, red chilly, cashew, tobacco etc. that are found in Kerala now, were introduced by the Portuguese. The widespread use of printing machines and the development of the art form ‘Chavittunatakam’ were some of the impacts of the Indo-Portuguese relationship.
50. Who were the ‘Kunhali Marakkars’? What was their importance in the history of India?
Answer: Kunhali Marakkars, the admirals of Zamorin's naval force led the resistance against the Portuguese in the Malabar region.
51. What is ‘Hortus Malabaricus’?
Answer: Var Rheede, a Dutch Governor who initiated the complication of ‘Hortus Malabaricus’ a book on the medicinal plants of Kerala. He completed the book with the help of Itti Achuthan Vaidyar.
52. What is the reason behind the war between the English and the French is known as the ‘Carnatic war’?
Answer: The war between the English and the French happened mainly in the Carnatic region, including the major regions of the present Tamil Nadu. So these battles were known as the Carnatic wars.
53. Examine the reasons for the defeat of the French in the Carnatic Wars.
Answer: The acquisition of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey provided enormous resources to the British. English had three important bases Madras, Bombay and Calcutta. All this helped the English to defeat the French in the Carnatic wars.
54. What were the factors that motivated the English East India Company to gain power in Bengal?
Answer: Agricultural prosperity and the convenient trade facilities prompted the Company to capture power in Bengal.
55. What were the reasons for the British capture of Mysore?
Answer: Mysore was a powerful kingdom in South India. It became the dominant power in the region during the reign of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. Their domination extended even to the areas like Malabar. This interrupted the trade of the British in the Malabar region. The friendly relation that Tipu Sultan maintained with the French also added fuel to the animosity of the British.
56. Which places came under the British reign in the Mysore wars.
Answer: Malabar, Coorg
57. What is the Treaty of Sreerangapattanam?
Answer: The British had to fight four wars before establishing their suzerainty in Mysore. The British announced Malabar as per the Sreerangapattanam treaty signed between Tipu and the British after the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
58. Why did the English conquer the Marathas?
Answer: Because the Marathas were a threat to the cotton trade of the British.
59. What is the ‘Doctrine of lapse’ policy?
Answer: This policy is introduced by Lord Dalhousie. As pas the policy when the ruler of a princely state died without a male heir, the British could annex the state with British India.
60. Arrange in chronological order.
• The Battle of Plassey
• The Battle of Kulachal
• The arrival of the Dutch in India
• The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut
• The arrival of the French in India
Answer:
• The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut
• The arrival of the Dutch in India
• The arrival of the French in India
• The Battle of Kulachal
• The Battle of Plassey
61. Identify the relationship between the items given in ‘A’ and fill up the blank spaces in ‘B’ based on the same relationship.
A. Goa -------------> Portuguese
B. Pondicherry -------------> .................
A. Subsidiary Alliance ------> Lord Wellesly
B. The Doctrine of Lapse -----> .................
Answer:
A. Goa -------------> Portuguese
B. Pondicherry -------------> French
A. Subsidiary Alliance ------> Lord Wellesly
B. The Doctrine of Lapse -----> Lord Dalhousie
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