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Importance of rivers originating from Himalayas. 

1. These rivers have enough water for the flow round the year. 

2. Even during the summer, they provide water. 

3. Many pilgrimage places have developed on the banks of these rivers i.e., Kedarnath, Badrinath, Haridwar, Gangotri, Yamunotri, Rishikesh etc. 

4. Many types of herbs and medicines are found in the drainage area of these rives. 

5. These rivers provide facilities of water transport. 

6. These rivers have formed the drainage plains.

A type of river which drains into the land or lakes and does not reach the sea is called the inland drainage system. Luni river in Rajasthan and Sabarmati river in Gujarat are the examples of inland drainage system. Such rivers are seasonal and flow only on surface of two earth. The rivers Kankani, Kantali, Sabi, and Mantha etc. are seasonal rivers and drain into the desert.

Correct Answer is: (a) Aravalli

B) Development

1. Solar energy to heat energy 

2. Solar energy to electrical energy 

3. Atomic energy to heat energy and then to electrical energy 

4. Electrical energy to mechanical energy 

5. Electrical energy to light energy

6. Electrical energy to light energy and sound energy 

7. Electrical energy to sound energy, 

8. Mechanical energy to sound energy 

9. Wind energy to sound energy 

10. Chemical energy to light energy 

11. Chemical energy to heat energy 

12. Chemical energy to heat, light and sound energy.

Water cycle and conversation of energies : 

1) The Sun heats water in oceans and seas. Then water evaporates as water vapour into the air.

Here potential energy converts into kinetic energy. 

2) Rising air currents take the vapour up into the atmosphere. There cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Here kinetic energy converts into potential energy. 

3) Air currents move water vapour around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow and fall out as rain. Here potential energy converts into kinetic energy.

4) Run off and ground water are stored as fresh water in lakes. Some precipitation falls as snow or hail. 

Here kinetic energy converts into potential energy.

• The books printed increased rapidly. 
• During 15^th century only a few books were printed. 
• People developed the habit of reading. 
• Thus ideas, opinions and information moved more rapidly than ever before. 
• They acted as good mass media.

A) Thomas More

Answer is (A) Newton

World Trade Organization was established in the year 1995.

Principia Mathematica was published in 1687

Answer is: Bajirao II

Academy of sciences was setup in Paris

Ranoji Shinde

Varhad and Gondawan were given to Parasoji by Shahu Maharaj.

A) William Harvey

1. In order to cut down costs, many firms in developed nations have outsourced their manufacturing and white collar jobs to Third- world countries where the cost of labor is low. Globalization has also led to an increase in activities such as child labour and slavery. 

2. Globalization has resulted in a fiercely- competitive global market with the embarrassment of unethical practices in business dealings.

3. It is also observed that globalization helped terrorists and criminals. 

4. Globalization has expanded the growth and development of cities which has been reduced to garbage-dumps where all the industrial waste is accumulated and pollution levels are sky-high. 

5. Fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC are spreading fast in the developing world. People have started consuming more junk food. This results in the degradation of health and spread of diseases. The traditional family attached food habits are being slowly disappearing.

6. Another comment leveled is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are struggling for a square meal. 

7. Some of the deadly viral diseases such as AIDS and CANCER, Dengue fever etc., Spread all over the world. 

8. Globalization has led to environmental degradation. 

9. The amount of raw materials needed to run industries and factories is taking a heavy toll on the natural reserves of planet earth and pollution has severely impacted the quality of air that we need so much for our survival.

10. The other challenges of globalization are cheap imports of goods from developing nations could lead to unemployment in developed countries where the cost of production is high. 

11. Further, it leads to Increased competition for infant industry, and Small scale industries and by dumping’ of goods by certain countries at below cost price may harm industries in other countries.

The aims of World Trade Organisation are: 

1. Settling disputes and reduce trade tension of the member countries. 

2. Stimulating economic growth and employment. 

3. Encouraging good governance. 

4. Bring down the living cost and raise the standard of living of the member countries.

C) Pedro Alvares

Ferdinand Magellan worked for Spain

Goa, Daman, and Diu were the Portuguese possessions in India.

A) Ferdinand Magellan

Correct Answer is : d) Bengal

c) Portuguese

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach India for trade.

• The British constructed forts around their residential areas. 
• They employed soldiers to protect these forts and stocked gunpowder too.

The British East India company was established in 1600.

• The British constructed forts around their residential areas. 
• They employed soldiers to protect these forts and stocked gunpowder too.

‘Dastak’ is the practice of carrying on trade without having to pay tax in the Bengal province.

• I have seen a few people from distant places live in my place. 
• They definitely spread the ideas from one place to another. 
• They introduce their customs, traditions, and food habits and there may be a few takers over here. 
• At the same time when they leave for their native places or shifts there, they definitely propagate what they learnt here over there.

On 17th May 1498, Vasco Da Gama reached Calicut in Kerala, discovering a new sea south to India.

Michelangelo – immortalized by the ceiling he painted for the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, the sculpture called “The Pieta “and his design of the dome of St. Peter’s Church, all in Rome.

• The possession of strong navy by the Dutch and the English posed a challenge to the Portuguese. 
• The Portuguese government officials become corrupt and disloyal. 
• They forcibly converted the locals into Christianity. 
• With the decline of Vijayanagar empire, their trade declined.

B) Both fall at the same speed – Galileo

• New technologies in filming and audio are introduced like DTS (Digital Theatre Sound), Flow cam, etc. 
• Readily built buildings are being placed now in the places where we need to construct them. 
• Many new religious beliefs came into existence in place of the older ones. There are many other changes taking place around us. 
• Most of these changes are caused as a part of cultural changes.

C) Leonardo da vinci

1) D 

2) C 

3) A 

4) E 

5) B

Farroog Siyar Farman granted Dastak to the British.

The Dutch had their trade centers in Agra, Machalipatnam, Surat, Karaikal, Patna, Nagapatna, Kochi etc.

Albuquerque was the first Portuguese Governor General of India.

The trade centres of the Portuguese in India were Diu, Daman, Salsette, Bassein, Chaul, Mumbai, Santhome and Hoogly in Bengal.

• The Dutch clashed with the English. The English defeated them 
• Unable to face, the English competition, the Dutch turned their attention towards the islands of south east Asia.

• The Portuguese government officials became corrupt and disloyal. 
• They forcibly converted people of different religions into Christianitiy. 
• The collapse of the Vijayanagar empire with whom the Protuguese had good relations, led to the decrease in trade.

Building colonial empire, propagation of Christianity were their main aims.

Pulicat was the capital of the Dutch.

Chinese invented the Paper first.

The British East India Company was the trade organization to come to India.

1. Pope Gregory XIII introduced Gregorian calendar.

2. Academy of Sciences was set up in Paris.

3. The Bible was translated into German in 1522.

4. Cylindrical map of the earth was prepared by Gerhardus Mercator.

5. Principia Mathematica.

(C) Magellan

a) Vasco Da Gama