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Class 10 The Making of a Global World worksheet

CBSE Social Science. Silk routes, food and germs, the 19th-century world economy, indenture, the Depression and Bretton Woods. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.

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Section A · multiple choice

1.
As early as 3000 BCE, coastal trade linked the Indus valley with:
1. Australia
2. Japan
3. the Americas
4. present-day West Asia
Answer
(d) present-day West Asia
2.
What is meant by rinderpest?
1. a cattle plague that hit Africa in the 1890s
2. a tax on imports at the border
3. a group of developing countries
4. the IMF and the World Bank
Answer
(a) a cattle plague that hit Africa in the 1890s
3.
In the chapter, the Maldives is known for:
1. financing export farming in Central and Southeast Asia
2. emporia at busy ports from the 1860s
3. the 1944 conference that set up the IMF
4. cowries that reached China and East Africa
Answer
(d) cowries that reached China and East Africa

Section B · short answer

4.
What were the silk routes?
Answer
Land and sea routes linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa, carrying silk, spices, textiles and precious metals.
5.
Explain each term: (a) home charges (b) the Corn Laws
Answer
(a) payments from India to Britain, like pensions and debt interest (b) British laws restricting corn imports

Section C · long answer

6.
How did food travel and change across the world before modern times?
Answer
Traders carried foods along routes: noodles may have travelled west from China, and after Columbus potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chillies spread from the Americas to Europe and Asia, changing diets.

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