CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2024: question 25(b)
Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2024, paper 32/2/1, section C, question 25(b), for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.
Q25(b) · 3 marks · Short answerThe Making of a Global World
How did food promote long-distance cultural contacts in the pre-modern world? Explain.
Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2024 board paper, set 32/2/1.
Hints
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Hint 1
Who carried foods from place to place?
Hint 2
Recall the story of noodles and pasta, and the crops from the Americas.
Step-by-step solution
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- 1 mark
Traders and travellers carried foods to the lands they visited, which spread food habits across regions.
- 1 mark
Noodles travelled from China to the West and became spaghetti, while Arab traders took pasta to Sicily.
- 1 mark
After the Americas were discovered, potatoes, tomatoes, maize, chillies, soya, groundnuts and sweet potatoes reached Europe and Asia. These came from the American Indians and changed diets across the world.
Answer: Traders and travellers spread foods such as noodles/pasta and American crops, linking cultures.
Where the marks are
- Traders and travellers introduced foods to new lands (1 mark)
- Example of noodles/pasta (1 mark)
- American crops reaching Europe and Asia (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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