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"Food offered many… (Class 10 Social Science 2026, Q5a)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2026, set 32/4/1 · 2 marks · Very short answer

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

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2026, paper 32/4/1, section A, question 5(a), for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

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

"Food offered many examples of long distance cultural exchange during pre-modern times." Explain the statement with any two examples.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2026 board paper, set 32/4/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think of foods that came to Europe and Asia after contact with America.

Hint 2

Which food travelled from China to the West?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Foods travelled across continents: potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes were unknown in Europe and Asia until they were introduced from America, which changed diets there.

    1 mark

  2. Noodles and spaghetti: noodles travelled west from China, and this is believed to be how pasta such as spaghetti reached Italy and other parts of the West.

    1 mark

Answer: Examples: crops from America (potato, maize, chillies etc.) reaching Europe and Asia; noodles travelling west from China as spaghetti.

Where the marks are

  • First example explained (1 mark)
  • Second example explained (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 32/4/1: every question, by section.

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