American and French revolutions
Whole chapter · 10–15 focused hours
American and French revolutions
First systematic modern world-history study; school-level chronology and map reading.
Includes
- Assigned reading with a causal timeline and map references
- Available mapped Mains questions and answer review
- One initial comparative recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions
- Full-length Mains mocks
- Current foreign-policy developments
- Ancient and medieval world-history survey
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Background to modern political change
- American independence
- French Revolution
- Revolutionary rights and their limits
Whole chapter reading
- NIOS Social Science, lesson 3 ↗
Sections 3.2–3.4; read only the intellectual background to the Age of Revolutions
- NIOS Social Science, lesson 3 ↗
Section 3.7.2, American War of Independence
- NIOS Social Science, lesson 3 ↗
Section 3.7.3, French Revolution
- World History Volume 2: Revolutions: America, France, and Haiti ↗
Section 7.3, The French Revolution and The Haitian Revolution
- World History Volume 2: The Mercantilist Economy ↗
The Mercantilist Economy: opening explanation of bullion, trade balance, colonies, state regulation and commercial restrictions; concluding paragraph on colonial growth constraints. These are historical policy objectives, not a claim that all colonial trade was legally confined to England in every period. France and Hume/Smith comparisons are optional context; the American section of 7.3 is not newly assigned.