"Food offer many examples of long distance cultural exchange." Justify this statement.
OR
Why has the Surat and Hooghly ports declined by the end of 10th century ? Explain any three reasons.
CBSE Class X Social Science SA ( 3 marks)
Answers
(i) Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled.
(ii) Noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti and Arab traders took pasta to Sicily.
(iii) Most of the common Indian food such as maize, tomatoes, groundnuts, potatoes, soya and
chillies were not known to our ancestors. They were introduced to Europe from America.
OR
Surat decline by the end of 18th century.
(i) The port of Surat declined mainly because of the growing power of the European Companies in
India.
(ii) These European Companies gradually gained power and started to control sea-trade in India.
(iii) They secured a variety of concessions which they obtained from local court and by gaining
monopoly rights to trade.
(iv) These companies did not want to use the old ports of Surat, Masulipatanam, and Hoogly etc.
(v) Instead they developed the ports of Bombay.
Answer:
This statement can easily be justified by the following points -
(i) Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled.
(ii) Ready food stuffs in distant parts of the world might share common origins. It is believed that noodles travelled West from China to become spaghetti.
(iii) Arab traders, perhaps took ‘pasta’ to Sicily in Italy.
(iv) Many of our common foods like potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies were not known to us. These foods came from American Indians and we became gradually dependent on these.
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