In the sixteenth century, European sailors discovered sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America. With these discoveries, the pre-modern world shrank and changed in the following ways: (i) With the discovery of America, its vast lands, abundant crops and minerals trRead more
In the sixteenth century, European sailors discovered sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America. With these discoveries, the pre-modern world shrank and changed in the following ways:
(i) With the discovery of America, its vast lands, abundant crops and minerals transformed trade and lives everywhere in the world.
(ii) Precious metals from mines in Peru and Mexico increased wealth of Europe and financed its trade with Asia.
(iii) The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America took place by the mid-sixteenth century.
(iv) In the pre-modern world, India and China were among the world’s richest countries.
However, since 15th century, China restricted overseas contact and followed a policy of isolation. As a result of it, the America’s importance increased. The center of world trade moved westwards and Europe become the center of world trade.
Three characteristics of the Silk routes are given below: (i) The Silk routes are an example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world i.e., Asia, Europe and northern Africa. (ii) These routes were used for west-bound Chinese silk cargoes and Chinese pottery.Read more
Three characteristics of the Silk routes are given below:
(i) The Silk routes are an example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world i.e., Asia, Europe and northern Africa.
(ii) These routes were used for west-bound Chinese silk cargoes and Chinese pottery.
(iii) Christian missionaries and early Muslim preachers also used these routes.
Sometimes new crops make remarkable difference in the lives of the poor people. For example, with the introduction of potatoes in Europe, the poor began to eat better and live longer. In Ireland, the poorest peasants were so much dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in tRead more
Sometimes new crops make remarkable difference in the lives of the poor people. For example, with the introduction of potatoes in Europe, the poor began to eat better and live longer. In Ireland, the poorest peasants were so much dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation. Hungry children used to dig for potatoes in the fields that had already been harvested. Thousands of people emigrated in search of work.
(a) Food offers long distance cultural exchange in distant parts of the world. Travelers and traders introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. For example, noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.Read more
(a) Food offers long distance cultural exchange in distant parts of the world. Travelers and traders introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. For example, noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti. Arab traders took pasta to fifth century Sicily (Italy). Similar foods were known to the Indians and Japanese people. Their origins cannot be ascertained, but the fact remains that there was long distance cultural contact even in the pre-modern world.
(b) Our major common foods are potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes. These were not known in India until about five centuries ago. These were introduced in Europe and Asia after the discovery of Americas by Christopher Columbus. Actually many of our common foods come from America’s original inhabitants i.e., the American Indians.
Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America.
In the sixteenth century, European sailors discovered sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America. With these discoveries, the pre-modern world shrank and changed in the following ways: (i) With the discovery of America, its vast lands, abundant crops and minerals trRead more
In the sixteenth century, European sailors discovered sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America. With these discoveries, the pre-modern world shrank and changed in the following ways:
(i) With the discovery of America, its vast lands, abundant crops and minerals transformed trade and lives everywhere in the world.
(ii) Precious metals from mines in Peru and Mexico increased wealth of Europe and financed its trade with Asia.
(iii) The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America took place by the mid-sixteenth century.
(iv) In the pre-modern world, India and China were among the world’s richest countries.
However, since 15th century, China restricted overseas contact and followed a policy of isolation. As a result of it, the America’s importance increased. The center of world trade moved westwards and Europe become the center of world trade.
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Explain any three characteristics of the silk routes.
Three characteristics of the Silk routes are given below: (i) The Silk routes are an example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world i.e., Asia, Europe and northern Africa. (ii) These routes were used for west-bound Chinese silk cargoes and Chinese pottery.Read more
Three characteristics of the Silk routes are given below:
(i) The Silk routes are an example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world i.e., Asia, Europe and northern Africa.
(ii) These routes were used for west-bound Chinese silk cargoes and Chinese pottery.
(iii) Christian missionaries and early Muslim preachers also used these routes.
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Explain with example, how the new crops could make the difference between life and death for people?
Sometimes new crops make remarkable difference in the lives of the poor people. For example, with the introduction of potatoes in Europe, the poor began to eat better and live longer. In Ireland, the poorest peasants were so much dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in tRead more
Sometimes new crops make remarkable difference in the lives of the poor people. For example, with the introduction of potatoes in Europe, the poor began to eat better and live longer. In Ireland, the poorest peasants were so much dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation. Hungry children used to dig for potatoes in the fields that had already been harvested. Thousands of people emigrated in search of work.
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Explain with examples, how does food offer long distance cultural exchange in distant parts of the world?
(a) Food offers long distance cultural exchange in distant parts of the world. Travelers and traders introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. For example, noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.Read more
(a) Food offers long distance cultural exchange in distant parts of the world. Travelers and traders introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. For example, noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti. Arab traders took pasta to fifth century Sicily (Italy). Similar foods were known to the Indians and Japanese people. Their origins cannot be ascertained, but the fact remains that there was long distance cultural contact even in the pre-modern world.
(b) Our major common foods are potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes. These were not known in India until about five centuries ago. These were introduced in Europe and Asia after the discovery of Americas by Christopher Columbus. Actually many of our common foods come from America’s original inhabitants i.e., the American Indians.
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