NCERT for Important Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 1
Important NCERT Extra Questions
Chapter 1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
NCERT Book Extra Questions for Session 2022-2023
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Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America.
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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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