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    The Making of a Global World – UNIT I

    1. Which was the fabled ‘city of gold’? (1)

    A) Peru

    B) Mexico

    C) El Dorado

    D) Spain

    E) Answer: El Dorado

    2. “The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modem trade and cultural
    links between distant parts of the world.” Explain how. (3)

    Answer: The routes on which cargoes carried Chinese silk to the west were known
    as ‘Silk routes.
    • Historians have discovered several silk routes over land and by sea, covering vast
    regions of Asia and connecting Asia with Europe and North Africa. Even pottery from
    China, textile and spices from India and South Asia also travelled the same route.

    • In return, precious metals like gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia. The traders
    along with trading items carried knowledge, ideas, values, skills, inventions, lifestyles, food
    habits, religious beliefs, etc.

    • Culturally, Buddhism emerged from Eastern India and spread in several directions through
    the silk routes. Thus, silk route not only played a major role in linking distant parts of the
    world, but also promoted pre-modern trade and cultural links.

    3. ‘Many a times introduction of new crops makes the difference between life and
    death’. Explain the statement with the example of introduction of potato in
    Europe. (3)

    Answer: • Foods such as potato which were unknown before were only introduced in
    Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the vast
    continent of America.

    • Sometimes the new crops like potato could make the difference between life
    and death. It was with the introduction of the humble potato that Europe’s poor
    began to eat well, eat better and live longer.

    • Ireland’s poor peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when the


    potato crop was destroyed by disease in the mid-1840s, hundreds of
    thousands of peasants died of starvation.
    4. What was the most powerful weapon that the Spanish used to conquer
    America? (3)

    Answer: • The most powerful weapon was the germs such as those of smallpox.
    • America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases that came
    from Europe as they were isolated for long.
    • Small pox in particular, proved to be a deadly killer disease. It spread deep into the
    continent and killed and decimated whole communities

    5. Why did thousands of people flee from Europe to America? (3)

    Answer: • Until the nineteenth century, poverty and hunger were common in Europe.
    • Cities were crowded and deadly diseases were widespread.
    • Religious conflicts were common, and religious dissenters were persecuted.
    So, thousands of people fled from Europe to America.

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