CBSE Class 10 Social Science Competency Based Questions The making of a Global World avilable here. We have included total 3 set of passage. Each passage has 3 questions. Students who are going to prepare their Board exam please Read the passage below and answer the following questions.
The making of a Global World Class 10 Competency Based Questions
1) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Before its ‘discovery’, America had been cut off from regular contact with the rest of the world for millions of years. But from the sixteenth century, its vast lands and abundant crops and minerals began to transform trade and lives everywhere. Legends spread in seventeenth-century Europe about South America’s fabled wealth. The colonisation of America was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century.
1.) Silver mines and precious metals were found in the present day-
a) Peru
b) Mexico
c) Venice
d) Both a and b
2.) Which city is known as the fabled city of gold?
a) El Dorado
b) El Monte
c) El Salvador
d) El Chapo
3.) How Europeans were able to conquer America?
Europeans were able to conquer America not only because of their military might and powerful weapons but also because of the germs they carried in person. Diseases like smallpox killed and decimated large number of people in America as Americans were originally an isolated community and they had no immunity against such diseases. This paved the way for easy conquest of America by Europeans.
2) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Population growth from the late eighteenth century had increased the demand for food grains in Britain. As urban centres expanded and industry grew, the demand for agricultural products went up, pushing up food grain prices. To handle this situation government brought corn laws.
1.) Corn laws were brough to satisfy the demands of which economic category of people-
a) Industrialists
b) Urban dwellers
c) Landed groups.
d) Government officials
2.) Why was corn law scrapped? What were its implications?
Corn laws were scrapped as it restricted the imports of corn and industrialists, and urban dwellers were unhappy with the high food prices. After the Corn Laws were scrapped, the food grains could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it can be produced within the country.
3.) What was the effect of the scrappage of the corn laws on the agricultural community?
After the scrappage of the corn laws, food grains can be imported in Britain more cheaply than it can be produced within the country. British agricultural class was unable to compete the imports and vast areas of land were left uncultivated, and thousands of men and women were thrown out of work.
3) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
The example of indentured labour migration from India also illustrates the two-sided nature of the nineteenth-century world.In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantations, in mines, and in road and railway construction projects around the world.In India, indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer’s plantation.
1) Most of the indentured labours from India came from the present-day states of
a) Bihar
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Tamil Nadu
d) All of the above
2.) What are Indentured labours, and they were hired from India under which contract?
Indentured labour is a bonded labour system under which labour is contracted to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay off his passage to a new country or home. Indentured labours were hired under a contract which promised return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer’s plantation.
3.) What was the effect of migration of indentured labours on their native land?
Migration of indentured labour effected the states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and dry areas of Tamil Nadu in many aspects. The cottage industries of the region declined, land rents rose, lands were cleared for mines and plantations etc. All these had a negative effect on the lives of poor section of society as they were unable to pay their rents and became indebted. They were also forced to migrate in search of work.
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