History Grade 10
Worksheet
Print Culture And The Modern World
Very short answer type questions (2 marks each):
1. Give a brief description of the first form of print technology.
2. How did the urban population use the print media?
3. When was print technology introduced in Japan?
4. Who was Marco Polo?
5. Why did the demand for hand written books diminish?
Short answer type questions (3 marks each) :
1. How did the print revolution influence the reading habit of the people of Europe?
2. Write a brief note on Martin Luther.
3. Write a short note on Indian manuscripts.
Long answer type questions (5 marks each):
1. Mass literacy increased many fold in the nineteenth century, in Europe. Women,
children and workers started reading books. Discuss.
2. Give a brief description of the first form of print technology.
3. How did the print revolution influence the reading habit of the people of Europe?
4. Write a short note on Indian manuscripts.
1 mark question each:
1. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in _______, Japan and Korea, which
was a system of hand printing.
2. Which of the following statements are true about printing?
a) Merchants used print in their everyday life as they collected trade information.
b) The imperial state in China was, for a very long time, the major producer of printed
material.
3. As Western powers established their outposts in China, _______ became the hub of the new
print culture.
4. ________ from China introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD 768-770.
5. The oldest _________ book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, containing
six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.
6. In the flourishing urban circles at Edo, illustrated collections of paintings depicted an elegant
urban culture involving artists, courtesans, and teahouse gatherings. Edo was later known as
________.
7. China already had the technology of woodblock printing. Marco Polo brought this knowledge
back with him to ________.
8. Vellum was a parchment made from the _____ of animals.
9. Which of the following statements about Manuscripts are true?
10. By the early fifteenth century, woodblocks were being widely used in Europe to _____.
