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Colonial and imperial trade systems

MYP History Colonial and Imperial Trade Systems Questionbank

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Historical trade networks

Colonial and imperial trade systems

Globalisation of markets

Exploitation, inequality and economic dependence

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Fill in the Blank: To ensure that wealth extraction was __________, empires shaped legal systems to include forced labor and special privileges for imperial traders.

systematic

voluntary

accidental

temporary

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According to the text, why do many modern postcolonial countries still rely on specific export crops today?

Fill in the Blank: To address a trade imbalance with China in the 1800s, the British East India Company produced __________ in India to sell illegally to the Chinese market.

Why did imperial powers maintain forts and garrisons in colonial territories?

The textbook uses a 'school group project' analogy to explain mercantilism. In this scenario, what action represents the behavior of the imperial 'mother country'?

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Because global demand for those crops has increased tenfold

Because they have the only climate suitable for those crops

Because their economies were restructured around imperial needs

Because local farmers prefer growing cash crops over food

Opium

Cotton

Rubber

Tea

To protect ports and secure trade routes for the empire

To store excess food for times of famine

To provide housing for local laborers

To serve as schools for local populations

Providing the funding while the colonies manage the distribution

Allowing every group member to present their own ideas freely

Doing the bulk of the manual labor for the project

Taking all the supplies and keeping the final grade for themselves

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