Class 10 SST Notes and Question Bank: The Making of a Global World for CBSE
Background
Though it has developed over millennia, globalization is not a modern phenomena. The world has been shaped in great part by the movement of people, products, and ideas over different areas. Examining how commerce, economy, and political events shaped globalization, the CBSE Class 10 Social Science chapter The Making of a Global World looks
1. Ancient Globalization: Trade’s Foundations
Silk Roads and first trade networks
An essential commerce artery uniting Asia, Europe, and Africa was the Silk Route.
Travelers, priests, and traders loaded gold metals, silk, and spices.
Idea, religious, and technological exchanges shaped civilizations.
Food and Cross-cultural Interaction
American crops including tomatoes, potatoes, and maize traveled to Europe and Asia, so enhancing diets.
Arriving in Italy, Chinese noodles developed into spaghetti.
Trade across the Indian Ocean produced active business centers.
2. The World Agricultural Economy in the 19th Century
Food Production’s Expansion
To satisfy British needs, large-scale agriculture spread in Australia, America, and Russia.
Originally limiting grain imports, British Corn Laws were repealed in response to urban demonstrations and industrialist criticism.
Technical Developments
Trade and connection were sped by steamships, trains, and telegraphs.
Particularly with textiles, industrialization increased items’ production and export.
European Colonization and Mobility
Colonization of Asia and Africa supplied industrial economy resources.
From India, indentured labor migration helped to propagate Indian culture outside.
Exported to European markets was Indian cotton.
3. Interwar Economics (1914–1945)
effects of World War I
Britain sank into debt while the war turned the United States into a worldwide creditor.
Decline in European wheat output resulted in more supplies from Australia, America, and Canada.
Mass manufacturing and industrial development in several nations followed from the conflict.
the 1929 Great Depression
Globally, the 1929 Wall Street Crash brought about an economic catastrophe.
Farmers suffered greatly and India’s imports and exports slumped.
Exports of gold climbed, and Indian urban industrial investment rose.
4. The After 1945 Post-World War Economy
American rise as well as American S.R.
Emerging as superpowers both the United States and the Soviet Union were
For economic stability, the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference produced the World Bank and IMF.
Decolonization and Changing Economic Systems
The 1950s and 1960s saw several Asian and African nations acquire their freedom.
The U.S. currency lost leadership by 1960, which changed the world economy.
Developing countries seeking a New International Economic Order (NIEO) for equitable trade practices came together under the G-77 group.
5. Essential Words and Ideas
Ancient trade lines connecting Asia with Europe and Africa ran on silk.
British law known as Corn Law limited importation of corn in order to support nearby farmers.
A lethal cattle epidemic called rinderpest plague affected African economy in the 1880s.
Establishing the IMF and World Bank, Bretton Woods Agreement is a 1944 accord.
G-77: A group of underdeveloped countries pushing for economic parity.
Systems deciding currency values—fixed and floating exchange rates—have different approaches.
Mostly owned by the United States in the IMF and World Bank, veto power is the right to reject decisions.
6. Exam-oriented CBSE Questions
One Mark’s Questions
List the Allied Powers engaged in World War I. (Response: Russia, France, and Britain)
2. Al-Dorado in Latin America: (The response is City of Gold.)
3. Which nation has veto authority within World Bank and IMF? (Answer: the United States).
4. List two main 19th-century inventions. (Answer: Steam Engine, Train Station)
5. America’s discovery person is… (Christopher Columbus: the response.)
3-5 Marks Short Answer Questions
1. 1929’s Great Depression had what causes?
2. How did Britain’s cotton sector suffer under industrialisation?
3. How did World War I affect British economic situation?
4. Describe how migration under indentured labor resembled slavery.
5. How did the Bretton Woods Agreement effect world trade?
Conclusion
Trade, war, colonization, and technological development all shape the ongoing process of global world building. This chapter offers understanding of how past events influenced the worldwide economy of today. To shine on their Social Science tests, CBSE Class 10 students must grasp these ideas.
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