Class 10 The Making of a Global World Mock Test (CBSE)

Topics in The Making of a Global World

• Silk routes
• Food travels
• Conquest, disease and trade
• The nineteenth-century world economy
• Role of technology
• Rinderpest and colonialism in Africa
• Indentured labour migration from India
• The inter-war economy
• The Great Depression and India
• Post-war settlement and Bretton Woods
• Decolonisation

The Making of a Global World practice questions with answers

1. Q1Multiple choice·1 mark
   Which of the following organisations was formed by newly independent Asian and African countries to steer clear of the competition between the two Cold War power blocs?

   1. (a)The Allied Powers
   2. (b)The Non-Aligned Movement
   3. (c)The League of Nations
   4. (d)The Axis Powers
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   1. Correct option: (b) The Non-Aligned Movement+1

   Answer: (b)
2. Q2Multiple choice·1 mark
   Which of the following goods was famously exported from China to Europe along the ancient and medieval Silk Routes?

   1. (a)Rubber
   2. (b)Petroleum
   3. (c)Silk
   4. (d)Cotton textiles
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   1. Correct option: (c) Silk+1

   Answer: (c)
3. Q3Long answer·5 marks
   In the nineteenth century, new technologies changed how goods, people and information moved between continents. Consider the telegraph and the steamship. (a) Explain how the telegraph changed the way merchants in London and Calcutta took decisions about buying and selling goods. [2] (b) Distinguish between the telegraph and the steamship in terms of what each one carried across the world. [3]
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   1. (a) Telegraph messages sent through submarine cables carried prices and orders between London and Calcutta in hours or days, instead of the weeks a ship's letter took.+1
   2. (a) Merchants could react quickly to price changes and market demand, which reduced the risk of loss from outdated information.+1
   3. (b) The steamship physically carried goods and people across oceans, and it did so faster and more regularly than sailing ships.+1
   4. (b) The telegraph carried only information such as messages, prices and orders, and it could not carry goods or people.+1
   5. (b) Hence the steamship moved the goods themselves, while the telegraph moved information about those goods.+1

   Answer: (a) The telegraph gave merchants fast information on prices and orders, so they could decide quickly and with less risk. (b) The steamship carried goods and people physically across oceans, while the telegraph carried only information.

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