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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What trend was Hobsbawm looking for in revolts and revolutions?
2. What quality distinguished the revolutions that took place in 1848 from earlier revolutions, according to Hobsbawm?
3. Who dominated the Orthodox Church in 1848?
4. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
5. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Hobsbawm's account, was the Napoleonic War worth the destruction it caused for the economic benefits that followed?
2. How did the French Revolution proceed from 1792 to 1794?
3. In Hobsbawm's account, how strong were the major European nations by the end of the Napoleonic Wars?
4. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the world was both bigger and smaller in the late 1700s?
5. Describe the beginnings of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1792.
6. How does Hobsbawm say that the nationalistic ideal spread through Europe?
7. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?
8. Describe the final defeat of the French forces at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
9. How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the slave trade, in Hobsbawm's account?
10. What does Hobsbawm say was the first wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways were the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution 'revolutions' in the technical sense (i.e. turnings back toward some previous state) and in what ways were they revolutionary (i.e. unprecedented, original events)?
Essay Topic 2
How important was nationalism in the revolutions Hobsbawm describes? Was it a cause or an effect of the revolutions? If it was a cause, what were its effects? If it was an effect, what caused it?
Essay Topic 3
Make an annotated time line with the important trends and events that marked the development of Europe in the Age of Revolution. Make a map that shows these trends and events as well.
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