Time.....3 hours
Maximum marks....100
Paper 1

Atempt only five questions....

Q.1 What do you know about the "Reign of Terror" and its significance during the French Revolution.

Q.2 Why Napoleon Bonaparte adopted the Continental System and how it led to the downfall of his empire?

Q.3 The events of 1848 demonstrated the resilience of the old order.Discuss.

Q.4 The years from 1848 to 1880 were about the creation of a Europe of nation-states.Elucidates.

Q.5 Was Nationalism more of a menace or an advantage to establish governments between 1871 and 1914?

Q.6 Why did the pace of European colonial expansionisn accelerate in the last decades of the nineteenth century?

Q.7 How serious a threat to the Bourgeois order was the rise of socialism as a political force before 1914?