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The Making of a Global World Worksheet 1

The document discusses the impact of globalization, highlighting the role of fast transport and historical trade routes like the Silk Routes. It covers significant events such as the Great Irish Potato Famine and the spread of diseases like smallpox, which affected societies and economies. Additionally, it emphasizes the cultural exchanges facilitated by food items and the broader definition of globalization encompassing economic and cultural interactions over time.

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The Making of a Global World Worksheet 1

The document discusses the impact of globalization, highlighting the role of fast transport and historical trade routes like the Silk Routes. It covers significant events such as the Great Irish Potato Famine and the spread of diseases like smallpox, which affected societies and economies. Additionally, it emphasizes the cultural exchanges facilitated by food items and the broader definition of globalization encompassing economic and cultural interactions over time.

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THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD

WORKSHEET - 1

VSA:

1.Analyse the contribution of fast transport in globalization.

Ans. Fast transport contributed greatly in the process of globalization by carrying large
amount of goods to far off location in less time. They have lead to the integration of the
markets.

2. What do ‘Silk Routes’ refer to?

Ans. Silk Route refer to networks of routes connecting Asia with Europe and Northern Africa.
Pg. 54

3.Who discovered the continent of America?

Ans. Christopher Columbus. Pg. 54

4. How were human societies interlinked in ancient times?

Ans. In ancient times, human societies were interlinked by travellers, traders, priests and
pilgrims who travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfillment or to
escape persecution. Pg.53

5. When did the Great Irish potato Famine took place and what were its results

Ans. The Great Irish Potato Famine took place during 1845 -1859. As a result of it, around
1,000,000 people died of starvation in Ireland and double the number emigrated in search of
work.

II. SA:

1.How did Silk Routes link the world?

Ans. (i) The name ‘silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes
along this route.

(ii) Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast
regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.

(iii) Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through
intersecting points on the silk routes.

2. Explain the Irish Potato Famine.

Ans.(i) During this famine, around 1,000,000 people died of starvation in Ireland.

(ii) During famine, double the number emigrated in search of work.

(iii) Hungry children were digging for potatoes in a field that has already been harvested,
hoping to discover some leftovers.
3. Explain smallpox as a powerful weapon.

Ans. (i) The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military
weapon at all. It was the germs such as those of smallpox that they carried on their person.

(ii) America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases that came from
Europe.

(iii) Smallpox in particular proved a deadly killer. Once introduced, it spread deep into the
continent.

4. In what ways did food items offer scope for long distance cultural exchange? Explain. (or)
“Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange.” Justify this statement.

Ans. (i) Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled.

(ii) It is believed that noodles travelled West from China to become spaghetti.

(iii) Arab traders took Pasta to Sicily, an Island now in Italy in 5th century.

(iv) Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnut, maize, tomatoes, chillies,
sweet potatoes and so on were not known to our ancestors.

III. LA:

1. What is globalization? Explain.


Ans. (i) Globalization refers to an economic system that has emerged in the last 50
years.
(ii) It is generally associated with the economy as the free movement of capital, goods,
technology, ideas and people across the globe.
(iii) Globalisation in a broader sense also includes cultural exchanges between
different countries of the world.
(iv) Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand.
(v) Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands that they traelled.
Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble
potato. /Any relevant points.
2. “The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the sixteenth century after European
sailors found a sea route to Asia.” Justify this statement.
Ans. (i) European sailors successfully crossed the western ocean to America.
(ii) The Indian Ocean had known a bustling trade, with goods, people, knowledge,
customs, etc. criss-crossing its waters. The Indian subcontinent was central to these
flows and a crucial point in their networks. The entry of the Europeans helped expand
or redirect some of these flows towards Europe.
(iii) Precious metals, particularly silver, from mines located in present day Peru and
Mexico also enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia. / any relevant
poin
Prepared by: Ms. Shantha.F

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