Revolutions That Changed Everything
From steam engines to barricades, trace the upheavals that reshaped the modern world
What this quiz asks
- 1In what year did Parisians storm the Bastille?
- 2In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
- 3Which machine did James Watt improve in the 18th century?
- 4Which text did the revolutionaries adopt in August 1789?
- 5Which sector was mechanized first during the Industrial Revolution?
- 6Who dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror?
- 7Which 'revolution' marks the shift to farming and animal husbandry?
- 8In what year did the American colonies declare their independence?
- 9Which energy source defines the second industrial revolution, around 1870?
- 10Originally, how was the metre defined during the French Revolution?
