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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 was production freed from in the 1780s?

2. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

3. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

5. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Hobsbawm's account, was the Napoleonic War worth the destruction it caused for the economic benefits that followed?

2. Describe the effect of the Greek revolution on Greece and the region.

3. What was the effect, in Hobsbawm's account, of the American Revolution on the French Revolution?

4. How does Hobsbawm say the population was distributed in the 1780s?

5. Why does Hobsbawm say that raw materials like iron and coal did not expand the same way as cotton began to expand in the 1780s?

6. How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the slave trade, in Hobsbawm's account?

7. What role did the cotton market play in the Industrial Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

8. Why did a period of peace follow the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?

9. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?

10. Where does Hobsbawm say the European nations expanded their influence, for lack of war in Europe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

70How does the Age of Revolution look if you discard the superlatives and try to see merely the new, small, day-to-day changes that made life markedly different from one year to the next over a period of 50 to 70 years? Write an extended journal entry or a series of short essays to describe what it must have been like for nineteenth-century Europeans to experience such a long period of consistent change.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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