Question

1. _______built the first paddle-wheel steamboat 2. _______improved the steam engine 3. _______leader in the struggle for Italian unification4.________an intellectual movement noted for its appreciation of feelings and human emotion 5.________led revolts against Spanish Rule in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador

Answer 1

1) Robert Fulton built the first paddle operate rated steamboat in 1807.

2) James Watt improved the steam engine and revolutionised its use by adding a separate condenser in the original design.

3) Giuseppe Garibaldi was the Italian leader and hero of the Italian unification, other important leaders of modern Italy.

4) Romanticism was the revolt against the aristocratic political and social norms of the age of enlightenment. It reacted against the scientific rationalisation of nature.

5) Miguel Hidalgo was leader of Mexican War of independence and a Roman Catholic priest