One-liners — The Making of a Global World
Chapter 3 · Class 10 History
Key Facts (20) — One-liner Revision
Mentor-curated facts for last-mile revision. Each line is exam-grade — dates, names, and turning points you can quickly memorise.
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Coastal trade between the Indus Valley and West Asia existed as early as 3000 BCE, evidence of pre-modern globalisation.
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Cowrie shells from the Maldives served as currency that reached China and East Africa for over a millennium.
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Silk Routes — overland and maritime — linked Asia to Europe and North Africa from before the Christian Era till around the fifteenth century.
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Buddhism spread westward from eastern India through intersecting points of the silk routes.
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Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and groundnuts reached Europe and Asia only after Columbus reached the Americas around 1492.
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The Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849 killed roughly one million people and pushed two million to emigrate.
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Spanish smallpox, not firepower, devastated America's original inhabitants in the sixteenth century.
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Britain repealed the Corn Laws in the 1840s, opening the country to cheap imported food grain.
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About 50 million Europeans migrated to America and Australia during the nineteenth century.
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Refrigerated ships from the 1870s made frozen meat affordable for Europe's poor.
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European powers met at the Berlin Conference of 1885 to partition Africa among themselves.
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Rinderpest entered Africa in the late 1880s through cattle brought for Italian troops in Eritrea and killed 90 per cent of African cattle.
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Indian indentured labour migration was abolished in 1921 after nationalist opposition.
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Henry Ford raised the daily wage at his Detroit plant to $5 in January 1914 to stop assembly-line workers from quitting.
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The T-Model Ford was the world's first mass-produced car, rolling off the line every three minutes.
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By 1933 over 4,000 US banks had closed during the Great Depression.
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Between 1928 and 1934 India's wheat prices fell by 50 per cent and raw jute prices crashed more than 60 per cent.
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The Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944 created the IMF and the World Bank.
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Under Bretton Woods, the US dollar was anchored to gold at $35 per ounce and other currencies were pegged to the dollar.
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Developing nations formed the Group of 77 to demand a New International Economic Order from the Bretton Woods system.