Chapter - The Making of A Global World Class-10 Subject-Social Science (History) Q1. What is Globalization? Ans. Movement of people, goods and services across the Nations has been termed as globalization. Q2. What were silk routes? Answer- 1. These were the routes which needed together vast regions of Asia and linked Asia with Europe and northern Africa. 2. These routes are known to have existed since before the Christian era and thrived almost till the 15th century. Q3. "The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century". Why? Ans: 1. Till the 15th century silk routes were the principle route to travel between Asia and the Europe and Africa. 2. America had not been discovered. Goods and people had to travel long distances for any type of exchanges. 3. Two major events of history in this period of time were as follows: a) European sailor found a sea route to Asia. b) European sailors also successfully crossed the We...