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Social Science · 2023 · 2 marks
CBSE 2023 · Region 4 · Set 2 · Q21
(A) Mention any two changes that occurred in West Punjab in the 19^th century.
(A)
Mention any two changes that occurred in West Punjab in the $\displaystyle 19^{\text {th }}$ century.
OR
(B)
Mention any two advantages of the Silk route in the pre- modern trade.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) The British Indian government built a network of irrigation canals.
(ii) Transformed semi – desert waste land into fertile agricultural lands for growing wheat and cotton for export.
(iii) The canal colonies were settled by peasants from other parts of Punjab.
(iv) The cultivation expanded the production.
(B) Mention any two advantages of the silk route in the pre modern trade.
(i) Silk routes are good example of our modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world.
(ii) It helped in connecting vast regions of Asia with Europe and Northern Africa.
(iii) Through these silk routes Chinese pottery travelled along with textiles and spices from India and South East Asia.
(iv) Through these routes precious metal like gold, silver flowed from Europe to Asia.
(v) Christian Missionaries travelled through this route to Asia.
(vi) Buddhism also spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk route.
CBSE Class 10 Social Science past-paper question from the 2023 board exam, with the answer as CBSE’s own marking scheme gives it. Where our answers come from.