Chapter 5

NCERT
Class 10
History
Solutions
1. Why do some historians think that print culture created the basis for the French Revolution?

Question:

Discuss-2

Why do some historians think that print culture created the basis for the French Revolution?

Answer:

The following arguments are given in favor of the facts that the print culture created conditions for the French Revolution: 

  • Printing popularized the ideas of enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau.
  • Collectively their writings provided a critical commentary on tradition, superstition and despotism. They propagated “reasons”. This influenced people's minds to rebel against the monarchy.
  • Printing created a new culture of dialogue and debate between old religious and political ideas and the new politico religious ideas. This led to the spread of new ideas of social revolution.
  • Cartoons and caricatures that came into being through print technology, mocked monarchy and expressed the sufferings of common people. This also inflamed the fire of revolution

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