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    MAKING OF THE GLOBAL WORLD

    1 “The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conqueror was not a


    conventional military weapon at all”. Justify the above statement by giving
    reasons.
    The Spanish conqueror’s most powerful weapon was not a conventional
    military weapon because,
    1. They used germs like smallpox which spread deep into the continent
    before any European could reach there.
    2. America's original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases
    that came from Europe. This disease erased the whole community,
    leading to conquest.
    3. This biological warfare in the mid sixteenth century made it easy for
    Spanish to overpower the Americans
    2 “Traders and travellers introduced new crops to lands they travelled.”
    Substantiate this statement with illustrations.
    “Traders and travellers introduced new crops to lands they travelled”
    1. It is believed that noodles travelled West from China to become
    Spaghetti. Perhaps Arab Traders took Pasta to fifth century Cecily and
    Island now in Italy,
    2. Similar food was known in India and Japan, so that the truth about
    their origins may never be known.
    3. Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts,
    maize, tomatoes, chilies, sweet potatoes, and so on were not known
    to our ancestors until about five centuries ago.
    4. These foods were only introduced in Europe and Asia after
    Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the vast continent that
    would later become known as the America. In fact, many of our
    common foods came from America’s original inhabitants – the
    American Indians.
    3 ‘The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre -modern trade and cultural
    links between distant parts of the world. ’Substantiate the statement with
    illustrations.
    • The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and
    cultural links between distant parts of the world.
    • There were several silk routes, over land and by sea that brought
    together regions of Asia, and linked Asia with Europe and northern
    Africa.
    • They existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the
    15th century. The name ‘silk routes’ points to the importance of West-
    bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route.
    1. Chinese pottery, textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia also
    travelled the same route. In return, precious metals – gold and silver – flowed
    from Europe to Asia.
    2. Trade and cultural exchange went hand in hand. Buddhism from India
    spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk routes.
    3. Early Christian missionaries travelled this route to reach Asia and Muslim
    preachers took the same route a few centuries later.

    4 New crops can significantly impact survival and well-being." Provide evidence
    to support this statement.
    1. Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction
    of the humble potato.
    2. Ireland’s poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that
    when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds
    of thousands died of starvation. Thus, new crops can significantly
    impact survival and well-being

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