Class 10 Social Science — Chapter 3: The Making of a Global World

What you'll learn

• ▸The Pre-Modern World and Interconnectedness
• ▸The Silk Routes as a Medium of Exchange
• ▸The Columbian Exchange: Food and its Impact
• ▸Conquest, Disease, and Trade in the Americas
• ▸The Westward Shift of Global Trade
• ▸The Three Flows of the 19th-Century Global Economy
• ▸The Role of Corn Laws in Shaping the British Economy
• ▸The Emergence of a Global Agricultural Economy

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- SECTION II LIVELIHOODS, ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES © NCERT not to be republished Reprint 2025-26 --- PAGE 2 --- © NCERT not to be republished Reprint 2025-26 --- PAGE 3 --- Chapter III The Making of a Global World 1066CH03 1 The Pre-modern World When we talk of ‘globalisation’ we often refer to an economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years or so. But as you will see in this chapter, the making of the global world has a long history – of trade, of migration, of people in search of work, the movement of capital, and much else. As we think about the dramatic and visible signs of global interconnectedness in our lives today, we need to understand the phases through which this world in which we live has emerged. All through history, human societies have become steadily more interlinked. From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution. They …

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1. Explain ancient global trade. Get Solution →
2. Describe potato's world impact. Get Solution →
3. Analyze disease's conquest role. Get Solution →
4. What is the Hindi term for *cowries*, which were used as a form of currency and travelled from the Maldives to China and East Africa? Get Solution →
5. The name 'silk routes' points to the importance of which product being transported westwards? Get Solution →
6. Foods such as potatoes, tomatoes, and maize were introduced to Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus's discovery of which continent? Get Solution →
7. The Great Irish Famine in the mid-1840s was caused by the destruction of which crop by disease? Get Solution →
8. What disease, carried by Spanish conquerors, proved to be a 'deadly killer' for the original inhabitants of America? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 Maldivian seashells called cowries were once used as currency across vast parts of Asia and Africa.
• 💡 The Silk Routes helped spread not just goods, but also Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam across continents.
• 💡 Before Columbus, foods like potatoes, tomatoes, and chili peppers were unknown in Europe and Asia.
• 💡 Smallpox germs, not superior weapons, were the most devastating tool for European conquerors in America.
• 💡 America was cut off from the rest of the world for millions of years before European exploration.

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