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Case Study-based Questions

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Economists began to think in terms of the national economy. They talked about how the nation could
develop and what economic measures could help forge this nation together.

Friedrich List, Professor of Economics at the University of Tübingen in Germany, wrote in 1834:
“The aim of the Zollverein (German Customs Union) is to bind the Germans economically into a nation.

It will strengthen the nation materially as much by protecting its interests externally as by stimulating its
internal productivity. It ought to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and
provincial interests. The German people have realised that a free economic system is the only means to
engender national feeling.”

1. What were the views of the economists about Zollverein?

2. What are the benefits of a free economic system?
3. Evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of a free market in nation-building.

Viva Voce Questions

1. Who set up a secret society called “Young Italy”?

2. Who is credited for visualising the utopian world from a European perspective?

3. Name the female allegory of France.
4. “When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold.” Who quoted this?

5. Who was Germania?

6. Name two personalities who contributed to the unification of Germany.

7. When did the Frankfurt Parliament gain recognition?
8. What do you understand with the term “Plebiscite”?

9. What was the symbolic meaning of the Olive branch around the sword?

10. Which was the first region to become a part of Unified Italy?

Short Answer Questions

1. What led artists in the 18th and 19th centuries to portray nations symbolically as female figures?

2. Why is the period from 1830 to 1848 often called the “Age of Revolutions”?
3. How were the unifications of Italy and Germany similar?
4. Define the role of Otto Von Bismarck in the unification of Germany.

5. What changes did Napoleon introduce to make the administrative system more efficient?

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