Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the peoples of the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Answer:
Points to remember
- Ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the legacy.
- These spread from France to Europe .
- Colonised people reworked the idea of freedom .
- Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy responded to the ideas coming from revolutionary France.
Answer to be written
- The ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the most important legacy of the French Revolution.
- These spread from France to the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century , when feudal systems were abolished .
- Colonised peoples reworked the idea of freedom from bondage into their movements to create a sovereign nation-state .
- Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy are two examples of individuals who responded to the ideas coming from revolutionary France.