Unit 3 Lesson 7 Quiz

Unit 3 Lesson 7 Quiz

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Unit 3 Rice and Spice

Lesson 7: Rice, capital, debt and rural hardship in Southeast Asia from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries

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1. What evidence highlight the development of export industries in South-East Asia?

ANSWER:
  • A lead exporter for rubber, hemp, pepper, cinchona bark and teak, tapioca and copra, palm oil, sisal, plus large amounts of sugar, tin, tea, tobacco, spices, natural resins, gums and fats, petroleum, iron, manganese and chromium
  • From 200,000 to 2 million tons of rice exported annually

2. What evidence highlight the development of the rice industry in Burma in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

ANSWER:
  • 1850-1900: 5 million acres brought into production
  • Steady rise in price
  • From 200,000 to 2 million tons of rice exported annually

3. What was the role of the Chettiars?

ANSWER:
  • Money lending at high rate (15 to 36% per year), initially to local money lenders and not directly to farmers
  • Foreclosing land mortgages
  • Lack of involvement in the cultivation process (absentee landlord)

4. In addition to the Chettiars, who were the other actors involved in agriculture trade?

ANSWER:

  • Other moneylenders
  • Burmese landowners
  • Tax collector
  • Chinese merchants
  • British colonial government in Burma and in UK: new land tenure system
  • British / Europeans investors (processing plants for rice)

5. What did the of Burmese cultivators do to respond to the development of the rice industry?

ANSWER:

  • Cultivating on larger scale to answer the growing demand for rice
  • Contracting loans to buy more paddy land; purchase seeds, equipment, labour and also for personal activities
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