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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Buy low, sell high.
(b) Get big or die.
(c) Create a niche.
(d) Buy locally, sell globally.

2. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) The mountains.
(b) The seacoasts.
(c) The islands.
(d) The farm country.

3. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations imposed by population size.
(b) The limitations imposed by years of war.
(c) The limitations of earlier production techniques.
(d) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.

4. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1812-1815.
(b) 1789-1815.
(c) 1792-1815.
(d) 1791-1812.

5. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Finland.
(b) The independence of Greece.
(c) The independence of Poland.
(d) The independence of Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?

2. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?

3. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?

4. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

5. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

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