History Chapter 3 Making of A Global World

(Under the Supervision of Ministry of education and Higher Education, Qatar)
Academic Year 2024-25
Chapter 3. The Making of a Global World

3/5 Marks Question and Answers (SA/LA)
1. Describe how human societies have become steadily more interlinked in

the ancient times.
Or
Mention any three sources of interlinkage between nations in ancient
times.
Ans. Human societies have become steadily more interlinked in the following
ways:
a) From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast
distances for knowledge, opportunities and spiritual fulfillment or to escape
persecution.
b) They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions and even germs and
diseases.
c) As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indus Valley civilisations
with present-day West Asia.
d) For more than a millennia, cowries (in Hindi cowdi or sea-shells) were used as a
form of currency from the Maldives they found their way to China and East Africa.
e) The long distance spread of disease-carrying germs are traced as far back as the
seventh century. By the thirteenth century it had become an unmistakable link.
f) From the ninth century, images of ships appear regularly in memorial stones
found in the western coast, indicating the significance of oceanic trade.
2. “Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange.” Support

your answer with three examples.
Ans. Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange as
mentioned below:
a) Travellers and traders introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even
‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. For
example, noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.
b) Arab traders took pasta to fifth century Sicily (Italy). Similar foods were known to
the Indians and Japanese people. Their origins cannot be ascertained, but the
fact remains that there was long distance cultural contact even in the pre-modern
world.
c) Our major common foods are potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes,
chilies, sweet potatoes. These were not known in India until about five centuries
ago. These were introduced in Europe and Asia after the discovery of Americas
by Christopher Columbus. Actually, many of our common foods came from
America’s original inhabitants i.e., the American Indians.
3. “The Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively

underway by the mid-sixteenth century.” Explain with examples.
Or
How did the smallpox prove as the most powerful weapon of the Spanish
conquerors in the early modern phase? Explain.
Ans. The Spanish conquest and colonization of America was decisively
underway by the mid-sixteenth century because of the following reasons.
 It was not with conventional weaponry that the Spanish conquerors won America
but with germs like smallpox which was spread into the region.
 America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases that came
from Europe.
 Smallpox was a deadly weapon. It spread deep into the continent before any
European could reach there.
 It erased whole communities, leading to conquest.
 This biological warfare in mid-sixteenth century made it easy for Spanish to
overpower the Americans.
4. “Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand.” Explain the
statement in the light of silk route.
Ans. Trade and internal exchange always went hand in hand. The following
points sum up the statement.
 Early Christian missionaries travelled to Asia from the Silk route as did the early
Muslim preachers a few centuries later.
 Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions via the
silk routes.
 Historians have identified several silk routes over land and by sea. Now the vast
regions of Asia could be connected. It also linked Asia, with Europe and northern
Africa through trade and culture.
 Silk routes are known to have existed since before the Christian Era. It continued
to thrive almost till the fifteenth century. Chinese pottery also followed the same
route, like textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious
metals like gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia.
 Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the areas they travelled. Along
this trade route ideas too travelled to distant places.

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(Under the Supervision of Ministry of education and Higher Education, Qatar)

Academic Year 2024-25

Chapter 3. The Making of a Global World

1. Describe how human societies have become steadily more interlinked in

2. “Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange.” Support

3. “The Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively

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