The making of Global World Class Xth History

The making of Global World Class Xth History Notes

1.Pre-modern world

1.1 Silk Routes
1.2 Food Travels
1.3 conquest,disease and trade

1.Pre-modern world

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The Making of global world has a long history of trade ,migration ,movement of capital and ideas. travellers,traders,priest and pilgrims migrated from one place to another
in search of knowledge,opportunities and spiritual fulfillment. they had carried goods,money,values,skills,ideas,germs and diseases.

As for Example :
1.Indus valley - It was linked with west Asia for coastal trade.
2. Cowrie - For more than 1000 years Cowrie was used as a form of currency which was found from Maldives.

1.1 Silk Routes

• It was a route from Land and sea which linked Asia,Europe and Northern Africa.
• It was active from BC to 15th century till America was discovered.
• This was a pre-modern route through which different kinds of trade and cultural exchange took place.
• It is known as silk route due to trade of famous chinese silk to the distant part of the world.
• Apart from silk ,chinese pottery ,textile and spices from India, and Gold and Silver from Europe were traded in.
• Other than goods many religious precahers too travelled through these routes. Buddhism,Christianity and Islam was propagated through these routes.

1.2 Food Travels

Many wellknown food items too travelled to different countries via these routes . for example noodles is believed to have travelled from china to west where it is known as spaghetti. Even this is hypothesized that Arab took pasta to Italy from where it reached throug whole Europe.

Disovery of America

The discovery of America paved ways for new discovery. Many fooditems which we use today were not known to our ancestors five centuries ago .
for example - Potato,Tomato,Sweet Potato,chilli,Soya ,maize etc. All these foods were brought to India by the Europeans who themselves took it from America .

Dependency on Potato - Europe's poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of potato.For example when famine destroyed pottao crops in ireland ,Thousands of people died of starvation. New crops would make huge difference between life and death.

1.3 Conquest,Disease and Trade

Before its discovery,America had no contact with the rest of the world for millions of years.But from 16th century its vast lands and abundant crops ,minerals transformed trade and lives of many people. Crops like potato,tomato,sweetpotato and minerals like silver from Peru ,Mexico and Gold attracted people to these lands.
To Conquer America and kill its local population,germs were used by the Spanish conquerors as a weapon.They carried smallpox to the new discovered land ,it was proven deadly for them as they had no immunity for it due to isolation from the world.

Migration to America - due to widespread hunger and poverty ,spread of deadly diseases and religious war people from Europe fled to America . Later on these people settled there and comprised of current population.