The Making of a Global World — Class 10 MCQs with Answers

The Making of a Global World — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 10 History)

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1. Q1 of 6Easy

   The Silk Routes connected Asia to:

   AAntarcticaBAustraliaCSouth America onlyDEurope and North Africa
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   Answer: Europe and North Africa

   Explanation: Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.

2. Q2 of 6Easy

   The World Bank, set up to finance post-war reconstruction, is the popular name of the:

   AInternational Trade OrganisationBInternational Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentCNew International Economic OrderDGroup of 77
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   Answer: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

   Explanation: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, popularly known as the World Bank, was set up to finance post-war reconstruction. The NIEO was a demand of the Group of 77, a group of developing countries.

3. Q3 of 6Medium

   Great Depression began in:

   A1929B1939C1914D1945
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   Answer: 1929

   Explanation: The chapter says the Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1930s, with catastrophic declines in production, employment, incomes and trade.

4. Q4 of 6Medium

   Why is the First World War often called the first 'modern industrial war'?

   AIt was fought only by industrial workersBIt was the first war to be reported in newspapersCIt took place entirely inside factoriesDIt used industrial products like machine guns, tanks, aircraft and chemical weapons on a massive scale
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   Answer: It used industrial products like machine guns, tanks, aircraft and chemical weapons on a massive scale

   Explanation: Industrial mass production of weapons (machine guns, tanks, aircraft, gas) made WWI vastly more destructive than earlier wars.

5. Q5 of 6Hard

   Arrange these events in correct chronological order: (i) Great Depression begins (ii) Bretton Woods Conference (iii) Outbreak of the First World War (iv) Rinderpest reaches Africa.

   A(iv), (iii), (i), (ii)B(iii), (iv), (ii), (i)C(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)D(iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
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   Answer: (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)

   Explanation: Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s, the First World War began in August 1914, the Great Depression began around 1929 and the Bretton Woods conference was held in July 1944.

6. Q6 of 6Hard

   Read the passage and answer the question. The name 'silk routes' points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes. But Chinese pottery also travelled the same route, as did textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia. Early Christian missionaries, and early Muslim preachers a few centuries later, also travelled this route. Which conclusion best fits the passage?

   AOnly silk was ever carried along the silk routesBTrade and cultural exchange went hand in handCGold and silver flowed from Asia towards EuropeDThe routes carried goods but never people or ideas
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   Answer: Trade and cultural exchange went hand in hand

   Explanation: The silk routes carried pottery, textiles and spices as well as silk, and missionaries and preachers travelled them too, showing that trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia, not the other way.

The Making of a Global World notes: key concepts (Class 10 History)

Explores how the world became interconnected: the ancient Silk Routes, the Columbian exchange of foods and germs, 19th-century flows of goods, labour and capital, indentured migration, and the shocks of the two World Wars, the Great Depression (1929) and the post-war Bretton Woods order of the IMF and World Bank.

Silk Routes

Pre-modern overland and sea trade networks linking Asia with Europe and North Africa; they carried silk, spices, metals, ideas and religions.

Columbian Exchange

After Columbus reached the Americas (1492), foods like the potato, maize, chillies and tomatoes spread to Europe, Asia and Africa.

Smallpox in the Americas

European germs, especially smallpox, killed vast numbers of Native Americans who had no immunity—a weapon of conquest deadlier than guns.

Corn Laws

British laws restricting grain imports; their repeal in 1846 let cheap food flow in but ruined many British farmers, who left the land.

Indentured Labour

Bonded workers, mostly from Bihar, UP and central India, taken to plantations in the Caribbean, Fiji and Mauritius; a 'new system of slavery'.

Suez Canal (1869)

Opened in 1869, this canal linked the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, dramatically shortening the sea route between Europe and Asia.

Rinderpest (1890s)

A fast-spreading cattle plague that killed African livestock, destroyed livelihoods and helped Europeans force Africans into wage labour.

First World War (1914–18)

The first 'modern industrial war', fought with machine guns, tanks, aircraft and gas; it caused huge deaths, debt and economic disruption.

Great Depression (1929)

Began 1929 with a US stock and farm crash; agricultural prices collapsed worldwide, spreading unemployment and hitting Indian peasants hard.

Bretton Woods (1944)

Post-war conference that set up a system of fixed exchange rates to ensure economic stability and full employment in the industrial world.

IMF and World Bank

The 'Bretton Woods twins': the IMF meets external deficits, the World Bank finances reconstruction; the US holds effective veto power.

G-77 and NIEO

The Group of 77 developing nations demanded a New International Economic Order—real control over resources and fairer prices and markets.

MNCs

Multinational corporations operate in several countries at once; they spread rapidly from the 1950s–60s as world trade recovered.

Cultural Fusion

Migration blended cultures: the 'Hosay' festival and Rastafarianism in the Caribbean show how Indian and African traditions reshaped new homelands.