Write a short note to explain the effects of the following:
The British government’s decision to abolish the Corn Laws.
The effects of British Government’s decision to abolish the Corn Laws:
(i)After the Corn Laws were scrapped, food could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced within the country.Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.
Write a short note to explain the effects of the following:
The coming of rinderpest to Africa.
Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.
The death of men of working-age in Europe because of the world war.