Practise MYP History questions on 3 Trade and Global Exchange and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
Fill in the Blank: To ensure that wealth extraction was __________, empires shaped legal systems to include forced labor and special privileges for imperial traders.
From an economic perspective, why did the "profits flow outward" from colonised regions?
According to the text, why do many modern postcolonial countries still rely on specific export crops today?
In the 20th century, international aid began to be used as 'soft power,' which means it was used by nations to:
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.
systematic
voluntary
accidental
temporary
Because colonies refused to accept foreign currency
Because transport costs for raw materials were higher than the value of the goods
Because colonial leaders reinvested all wealth into local education
Because wealth was transferred to imperial centres rather than being reinvested locally
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
Establish permanent military bases in developing regions
Replace all existing trade agreements with charity
Shape global relationships and influence other countries without military force
Directly govern the internal politics of other nations
Opium
Cotton
Rubber
Tea
