The Making of a Global World · Class 10 History: 94 MCQs with answers

Q1. Which of the following did pre-modern travellers carry that could harm the societies they visited?

Q2. Which region was linked to present-day West Asia by coastal trade around 3000 BCE?

Q3. Why are the silk routes called by that name?

Q4. Which statement about the silk routes is correct?

Q5. Until approximately when did the silk routes thrive?

Q6. Which religion emerged in eastern India and spread through points on the silk routes?

Q7. Who may have taken pasta to Sicily in the fifth century, according to one view?

Q8. Which of the following foods was unknown in India until about five centuries ago?

Q9. From whom did many of today's common foods originally come?

Q10. How did the introduction of the potato change life for Europe's poor?

Q11. Why is the making of the global world said to have a long history?

Q12. Describe the silk routes and the goods traded along them.

Q13. Explain how foods from the Americas changed diets elsewhere.

Q14. Which of the following moved across the Indian Ocean before the Europeans arrived?

Q15. Where were the silver mines that enhanced Europe's wealth located?

Q16. What was El Dorado?

Q17. By when was the Portuguese and Spanish conquest of America decisively under way?

Q18. Which disease proved a particularly deadly killer in the Americas?

Q19. Who is a dissenter?

Q20. What were American plantations producing for European markets by the eighteenth century?

Q21. Who provided the labour on American plantations in the eighteenth century?

Q22. What is China said to have done from the fifteenth century?

Q23. Which country's inhabitants were described as having been 'cut off for millions of years'?

Q24. What is meant by saying the world grew smaller during the 1500s?

Q25. Why did thousands of Europeans migrate to America before the nineteenth century?

Q26. Explain the three types of flows in the nineteenth-century world economy.

Q27. Why does the chapter argue that globalisation is not simply a recent development?

Q28. Consider the following reasons for travel in the pre-modern world. 1. Search for knowledge 2. Spiritual fulfilment 3. Escape from persecution Which of these are mentioned as reasons people travelled vast distances?

Q29. Why is the journey of Maldivian cowries to China and East Africa a sign of early global links?

Q30. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): The spread of disease-carrying germs is evidence of global links in the pre-modern world. Reason (R): Germs travelled with people who moved over long distances.

Q31. By which century had the long-distance spread of germs become an unmistakable link?

Q32. What do regular images of ships on memorial stones on India's western coast from the ninth century suggest?

Q33. Consider the following statements about the silk routes. 1. They linked Asia with Europe and northern Africa. 2. They existed before the Christian Era. 3. They were at their height in the nineteenth century. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q34. Which pair correctly shows goods moving in opposite directions along the silk routes?

Q35. Which goods, besides silk, are mentioned as travelling westwards on the silk routes?

Q36. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): Trade and cultural exchange went hand in hand on the silk routes. Reason (R): Missionaries and preachers travelled the same routes as traders.

Q37. Arrange in order the arrival of religious travellers on the silk routes, from earliest to latest.

Q38. Why is it hard to be certain whether noodles became spaghetti?

Q39. Consider the following foods. 1. Groundnuts 2. Maize 3. Tomatoes Which of these reached Europe and Asia from the Americas?

Q40. Which event made it possible for foods like potatoes and maize to reach Europe and Asia?

Q41. Why did so many people in Ireland starve in the mid-1840s?

Q42. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): New crops could make the difference between life and death. Reason (R): The potato was rejected everywhere in Europe and never entered the ordinary diet.

Q43. About how many people died of starvation in the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849?

Q44. If about 1,000,000 people died in the Irish famine and twice that number emigrated, roughly how many emigrated?

Q45. Which statement best explains why the pre-modern world can be called 'interlinked'?

Q46. Which pair correctly matches an item with its place of origin?

Q47. Show with examples that trade and cultural exchange went hand in hand on the silk routes.

Q48. How does the story of noodles and spaghetti show long-distance cultural contact?

Q49. Why is the potato called a crop of both life and death?

Q50. Describe the ways in which the pre-modern world was interlinked.

Q51. 'Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange.' Justify the statement.

Q52. What best explains why the world is said to have 'shrunk' in the sixteenth century?

Q53. Consider the following statements about the sixteenth century. 1. European sailors found a sea route to Asia. 2. Europeans crossed the western ocean to America. 3. The silk routes were at the height of their importance. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q54. Which statement about Indian Ocean trade before the Europeans is correct?

Q55. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): The entry of Europeans changed the direction of some Indian Ocean trade flows. Reason (R): Europeans expanded or redirected some flows towards Europe.

Q56. Why did America's entry into world trade have such a large impact?

Q57. What does the search for El Dorado reveal about European expeditions to South America?

Q58. Why is it said that the Spanish conquerors' most powerful weapon was not a military weapon?

Q59. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): Smallpox devastated America's original inhabitants. Reason (R): Smallpox had been common in America for centuries before the Europeans came.

Q60. Why could guns NOT match disease as a weapon of conquest?

Q61. Consider the following statements about the conquest of America. 1. It was only the result of superior firepower. 2. Germs carried by the conquerors paved the way for conquest. 3. The conquerors were mostly immune to the diseases they carried. Which of the statements given above are correct?

Q62. Which of these was NOT a reason why thousands of Europeans left for America before the nineteenth century?

Q63. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): Many religious dissenters migrated from Europe to America. Reason (R): America's population was small and its land plentiful in this period.

Q64. Which statement best links European migration and African slavery in America?

Q65. Until when were China and India among the world's richest countries?

Q66. Which two developments together moved the centre of world trade westwards?

Q67. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): Europe emerged as the centre of world trade. Reason (R): India was the poorest country in the world in the sixteenth century.

Q68. Arrange the following in the order in which they occurred. 1. China restricts overseas contacts 2. Slave plantations grow cotton and sugar for Europe 3. Spanish conquest of America under way

Q69. Which pair correctly matches a cause with its effect?

Q70. How did the Americas transform world trade after the sixteenth century?

Q71. Explain why smallpox was the deadliest weapon of the Spanish conquerors.

Q72. What was the role of India in pre-modern Indian Ocean trade, and how did the Europeans change it?

Q73. Why did the centre of world trade move westwards to Europe?

Q74. Explain how conquest, disease and trade reshaped the world in the sixteenth century.

Q75. What the Spanish conquerors carried that did most damage was not a weapon in any ordinary sense. Explain.

Q76. How did indentured labourers from India shape new cultures abroad?

Q77. How did the Great Depression affect India?

Q78. What were the main features of the Bretton Woods system?

Q79. What does the flow of gold and silver from Europe to Asia suggest about silk-route trade?

Q80. A museum displays Chinese pottery found at a trading post in West Asia along with a Buddhist statue. What is the best explanation?

Q81. Even if the origin of spaghetti can never be proved, why is the story still useful to historians?

Q82. An Indian family cooks a meal of potato curry with tomatoes and green chillies. What does this show about global history?

Q83. What lesson does the Irish Potato Famine teach about food security?

Q84. Why is the word 'discovered' used with caution when describing Columbus and the Americas?

Q85. Assess the importance of the silk routes in the history of the pre-modern world.

Q86. How did American silver connect the Americas with Asia?

Q87. How could smallpox kill communities that had never met a European?

Q88. Why do some historians describe the spread of smallpox in America as 'biological warfare'?

Q89. A seventeenth-century colonial governor wrote that smallpox had 'cleared' the colonists' title to the land. What attitude does this reveal?

Q90. A historian says the sixteenth century was a 'turning point' for Asia's place in the world. Which evidence best supports this?

Q91. Why is the arrival of Europeans in America linked to both conquest and trade?

Q92. What does the phrase 'conquest, disease and trade' sum up about the sixteenth-century world?

Q93. Why did the decline of the silk routes and the rise of sea routes favour Europe?

Q94. How did Europe become the centre of world trade? Explain.