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How did trade help to… (Class 10 Social Science 2026, Q5B)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2026, set 32/1/1 · 2 marks · Very short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2026: question 5(B)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2026, paper 32/1/1, section A, question 5(B), for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q5(B) · 2 marks · Very short answerThe Making of a Global World

How did trade help to spread diseases during the pre-modern world? Explain.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2026 board paper, set 32/1/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think of the Americas after Europeans arrived.

Hint 2

Why were the local people so vulnerable?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. Traders, conquerors and travellers carried germs with them. The Spanish conquerors of America brought smallpox, which proved to be their most powerful weapon.

    1 mark

  2. America's inhabitants had been isolated for a long time and had no immunity. Smallpox spread deep into the continent, often ahead of the Europeans, and wiped out whole communities, which paved the way for conquest.

    1 mark

Answer: Trade and conquest carried germs such as smallpox to people with no immunity, causing mass deaths.

Where the marks are

  • Germs such as smallpox were carried by the conquerors (1 mark)
  • No immunity among the isolated inhabitants, so deaths spread and conquest became easy (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from The Making of a Global World, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2026 board paper, set 32/1/1: every question, by section.

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