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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 group does Hobsbawm say typified the revolutionary groups that became active in 1848?

2. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?

3. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?

4. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the second wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

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

7. How did the French Revolution proceed from 1792 to 1794?

8. In Hobsbawm's account, why was 1830 a turning point in the history of Europe?

9. Describe the final defeat of the French forces at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

10. What does Hobsbawm say was the third wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How had the past changed as a result of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution? How did the sciences, technologies and philosophies that were developed during the Age of Revolution change how people looked at their own origins and the origin of the human race?

Essay Topic 2

Hobsbawm says that nationalism was a new phenomenon after 1830, and that it was tied to the rise of a middle class. Explain the relationship between nationalism and the rising middle class. How did the middle class use nationalism to define itself and its desires? What problems or pressures did nationalism answer or resolve for the middle class?

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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