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Assignment:

Pick one of the brain exercises on pp. 132-133 of SOCRATIC and answer it. Respond to each other's answers!

1. What caused the French Revolution?
2. Ch. of Doyle is about those things that the French Revolution brought to an end. What were they? (66-82)
3. Ch. of Doyle is about those things that the French Revolution began. What are they? (83-99)
4. Edmund Burke became known throughout Europe as the foremost opponent of the French Revolution because he saw the revolution as an unholy alliance of puritanism and primitivism driven by the revolutionaries abstract idealism that led to an intolerable moral absolutism. Burke characterized the revolutionaries' perspective as "metaphysical madness." Explain what all of these "isms" mean; and then what in your words this amounted to, as far as what Burke's view about the French Revolution was and why he viewed the revolutionaries' perspective as "metaphysical madness."
5. Consider Burke's views on France. Can you, and how would you, reconcile (or not reconcile) them with the following: The Mughal Empire was the imperial power on the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the 19th c., weakening over time. The first wave of Europeans to arrive in India were the Portuguese and the Dutch. The British later came to the Indian subcontinent to trade in the 17th century, and became colonizers there under the governorship of the East India Company, the extraordinarily powerful joint stock company that was a private enterprise, but had its own military and accounted for on the order of half of the international trade in the world from the mid-1700s into the 1800s. The British government did not officially begin to rule India until 1857. India was the base for Britain's opium export trade to China, which it required Indian farmers to grow. This became a hugely profitable business by the 1770s, offsetting trade imbalances from Britain's enormous tea imports. Burke spent sixteen years of his career in Parliament seeking to indict Warren Hastings, the East India Company's Governor-General of Bengal, for crimes against the Indian people, relying on natural law.
6. What was Bernhardi's message in Germany and the Next War, why do you think he wrote it, and to whom was he writing?
7. What were the causes of WWI, besides the assassination that triggered it, and what were its consequences?
8. What countries were the major players in WWI? What other countries became involved and why?
9. What were the immediate causes of the Russian Revolution?
10. What were the long-term causes of revolution in Russia and what were its consequences?