CBSE Class 10 Social Science sample paper 2023-24: question 22(B)
From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2023-24, section B, question 22(B), for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.
Q22(B) · 2 marks · Very short answerThe Making of a Global World
"Traders and travelers introduced new crops to lands they travelled." Substantiate this statement with illustrations.
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Hints
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Hint 1
Think of the food 'spaghetti' and where its origins might lie.
Hint 2
Which crops reached Europe and Asia only after the discovery of the Americas?
Step-by-step solution
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- 1 mark
Traders and travellers carried foods across regions. For example, noodles are believed to have travelled from China to the West and become spaghetti, and Arab traders probably took pasta to Sicily in the fifth century.
- 1 mark
Many common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes were unknown in Europe and Asia until about five centuries ago. They were introduced after Columbus reached the Americas, whose native peoples first grew them.
Answer: Examples: noodles to spaghetti; potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies etc. spread from the Americas after Columbus.
Where the marks are
- Illustration of the noodles/pasta journey (1 mark)
- Illustration of American crops such as potato, maize, tomato introduced after Columbus (1 mark)
Revise the chapter
- Chapter: The Making of a Global World (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
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