Author Question: Population in Europe during the nineteenth century a. remained steady until the 1830s, and then ... (Read 149 times)

AEWBW · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Population in Europe during the nineteenth century

a. remained steady until the 1830s, and then began to decrease steadily.
b. was notable for rapid overall growth and a far more rapid increase in city populations.
c. was dramatically reduced when the Great Famine killed thirty-five percent of the Russian, Irish, and Prussian populations.
d. decreased as peasants, reassured by falling death rates, reduced the rural birth rate by over sixty percent due to their adoption of birth control.
e. was numerically dominated by the landed aristocracy.

Question 2

The basic purpose of the Concert of Europe was to

a. obliterate the Ottoman Empire.
b. maintain conservative political control over Europe.
c. expedite liberal change in European governments.
d. allow the great powers of Europe to unilaterally intervene wherever they chose to.
e. enable nationalism to dominate European politics.