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Topic for Today<\/strong>: (9th August, 2017)<\/p>\n Capitalism & Industrial Revolution, Revolutionary & Nationalist Movements ( French revolution, American Revolution, Unification of Italy, Germany etc, Socialist Movements ), Imperialism & Colonialism (Causes & Effects)<\/p>\n Read the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not more than 200 words<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Kindly review each others answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Q1. Elaborate on the role played by the Enlightenment thinkers in the American Revolution with a special emphasis on their contributions to the formation of the US constitution.<\/a><\/p>\n Q2. Critically examine the role played by Napoleon in European history. What were the reasons for Napoleon\u2019s downfall?<\/a><\/p>\n Q3. Trace the progress of Industrial Revolution in countries besides England.<\/a><\/p>\n Q4. What is colonialism? What led to it? Elaborate on how the European powers colonized Africa.<\/a><\/p>\n Q5. What were the 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> Internationals? Explain their contributions and the reasons for their failure.<\/a><\/p>\n Q6. Discuss the role of Bismarck in the unification of both Germany as well as Italy.<\/a><\/p>\n Q7. \u201cThe Industrial Revolution changed humanity for the better.\u201d Critically examine.<\/a><\/p>\n Next Test<\/strong>: (11th August, 2017)<\/p>\n First World War ( Causes, Events, Peace Treaties, Consequences ), World from 1919 – Second World War ( Fascism, Nazism, Rise of USA & Soviet, Consequences ), The World After Second World War (Consequences, Cold War, Decolonisation)<\/p>\n We request all the aspirants to participate actively in this Initiative.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The tests are designed in such a way that students would be able to complete the GS Mains syllabus on time and have ample answer writing practice before CSM-2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n Note from our side<\/span>:<\/p>\n You must be subscribed to this blog via wordpress.\u00a0Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to this blog.<\/p>\n Note:<\/p>\n Did you like our new Initiative?<\/span> Any suggestions?\u00a0<\/strong>Do let us know by mailing us at ravi@forumias.com<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n To know more about the GS Test Series<\/span> : Click Here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n To Download the GS Test Series Plan<\/span> : Click Here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n (All Mains Marathon followers, do participate in the Free Mains Marathon GS Test Series actively and make the Initiative a success. Post answers and review others answers<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the 1st Mains Marathon General Studies Test. Topic for Today: (9th August, 2017) Capitalism & Industrial Revolution, Revolutionary & Nationalist Movements ( French revolution, American Revolution, Unification of Italy, Germany etc, Socialist Movements ), Imperialism & Colonialism (Causes & Effects) Read the\u00a0following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not… Continue reading ForumIAS Free UPSC Mains General Studies Test Series for UPSC CSM-2017 : Test 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gs-tests-mains-marathon","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/answer-writing.jpg?fit=1000%2C435&ssl=1","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698181511},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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