PYQ Mappings — The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
Chapter 1 · Class 10 History
Asked in Past Exams (8)
Previous-year questions from UPSC, State PSCs and Boards — each one mapped to the specific NCERT line or paragraph it came from. This is the kind of mapping you usually pay coaching fees for.
UPSC (2)
- UPSC CSE Prelims (style) 2018 Q—
With reference to nineteenth-century Europe, the term 'Zollverein' refers to what?
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Topic 3 explains: a Prussian-led customs union formed in 1834 that abolished tariff barriers among German states and reduced currencies from over thirty to two.
- UPSC CSE Mains (style) 2015 Q—
How did culture, particularly Romanticism, contribute to the growth of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe?
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Topic 6 covers this — Herder's volksgeist through folk songs of das volk, the Grimm brothers' folktales and German dictionary, Polish national identity preserved through music and language after partition.
State PSC (1)
- Maharashtra State PSC General Studies 2019 Q—
Discuss the contribution of Giuseppe Mazzini to Italian nationalism.
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Topic 5 covers Mazzini — born Genoa 1805, joined Carbonari, founded Young Italy and Young Europe, vision of a unitary Italian Republic, called by Metternich the most dangerous enemy of social order.
Board (5)
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2020 Q—
Describe the role of Otto von Bismarck in the unification of Germany.
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Covered in Topic 8 (Unification of Germany and Italy). Bismarck used the Prussian army and bureaucracy in three wars against Denmark, Austria and France; William I was crowned Kaiser at Versailles in January 1871.
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2019 Q—
Explain the steps taken by the French revolutionaries to create a sense of collective identity among the French people.
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Topic 1 lists every measure — tricolour, National Assembly, hymns, central administration, uniform laws, abolition of internal customs duties, standardised weights, French as common language.
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2017 Q—
Who were Marianne and Germania? What was the importance of the way they were portrayed?
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Topic 9 covers female allegories — Marianne with red cap and tricolour for France, Germania with oak-leaf crown for heroism. They turned an abstract nation into a visible, identifiable figure.
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2016 Q—
Why did nationalist tensions emerge in the Balkans?
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Topic 9 explains — Slavic ethnic mosaic, Ottoman decline, romantic nationalism, big-power rivalry between Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Britain. These tensions led directly to the First World War.
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2018 Q—
Explain the meaning of the 1848 Revolution of the Liberals.
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Topic 7 covers it — middle-class demands for constitutionalism plus national unification, abdication of Louis Philippe, Frankfurt parliament with 831 deputies, suffrage for adult males above 21.