notes for ch 4 Making of a Global World class 10th history
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Pre Modern World
Human societies have steadily more interlinked.
Travelers, traders, priest and pilgrims travelled vast distance for carrying goods, money, ideas, skills, inventions and even germs and disease.
Indus Vally civilisation was linked with West Asia.
Cowries a form of currency from the Maldives.
Silk Route Link the World
The silk routes were regarded as the most important route linking the distant parts of the world.
Routes were existed even before the Christian Era and flourished till the 15th century.
The Buddhist preachers, Christian missionaries and later on Muslim preacher used to travel by Routes.
Routes proved to be a great source of trade and cultural links between distinct parts of the world.
Conquest, Disease and Trade:
In 16th century after European sailors found a sea route to Asia and America.
The Indian subcontinent had been known for bustling trade with goods, people, customs and knowledge. It was a crucial point in their trade network.
After the discovery of America, its vast lands and abundant crops and minerals began to transform trade and lives every where.
Precious metals, particularly silver from mines located in Peru and Maxico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was under way.
The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon but germs of small pax which they carried.
America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against such type of dis