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    D.A.

    V PUBLIC SCHOOL, THANE


    STD. X (NOTES)
    HISTORY: THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD

    THE PRE-MODERN WORLD


    Globalisation-
    Globalisation is generally associated with economy as the free movement of capital, goods, technology,
    ideas and people across the globe. Globalisation in a broader sense also includes cultural exchanges
    between different countries of the world

    Ancient times
     Travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and
    spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution.
     They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, in- ventions, and even germs and diseases.
     As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilisations with present-
    day West Asia.
     Silk route linked China with West and Food travels from America to Europe to Asia.
     Noodles travels from China to Italy and became Spaghetti.
     European conquerors carried germs of smallpox in America. Once introduced, it spread deep into
    the continent.
    Silk Route
     The Silk Route was a historic trade route that dated from the second century B.C. The ‘silk
    routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route. until the
    14th century A.D.
     It stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean, traversing China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and
    Italy .It was dubbed the Silk Route because of the heavy silk trading that took place during that
    period.

    Food Travels : Spaghetti and Potato


     Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands that they travelled.
     Spaghetti :- noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti. Or, perhaps Arab traders
    took pasta to fifth-century Sicily, an island now in Italy
     Food Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies,
    sweet potatoes, and so on were not known to our ancestors until about five centuries ago.
     Potato :- Europe’s poor began better and live longer with introduction the humble Potato.
     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.

    Conquest, Disease and Trade:


     In 16th century after European sailors found a sea route to Asia and America.
     The Indian subcontinent had been known for bustling trade with goods, people, customs and
    knowledge. It was a crucial point in their trade network.
     After the discovery of America, its vast lands and abundant crops and minerals began to
    transform trade and lives everywhere.
     Precious metals, particularly silver from mines located in Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s
    wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
     The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was under way.
     The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon
    but germs of small pox which they carried.
     America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against such type of diseases.

     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. Thousands therefore
    fled Europe for America. Here, by the eighteenth century, plantations worked by slaves captured
    in Africa were growing cotton and sugar for European markets.
     Until well into the eighteenth century, China and India were among the world’s richest countries.
    They were also pre-eminent in Asian trade.
     However, from the fifteenth century, China is said to have restricted overseas contacts and
    retreated into isolation. China’s reduced role and the rising importance of the Americas gradually
    moved the centre of world trade westwards. Europe now emerged as the centre of world trade.

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