I need answers for all 8 questions. Each answer should be 600 - 1000 words. They are exam topics. The answers don't need to be in final essay form but they should cover everything I need to know to answer them in the exam.

1. Explain the massive influx of New World bullion into Europe between 1500 and 1800. Discuss the economic consequences.

2. Explain the role of technology in raising industrial productivity in Europe between 1500 and 1800.

3. Did European culture and institutions provide an especially favourable environment for science and technology to be used in making improvements in the production process?

4. Discuss the multiple ways in which increased consumption of sugar in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the cause and consequence of stronger economic connections between Asia, Africa, Europe, and America.

5. Assess the role of urban settlements in the economic development of China, 1500-1800.

6. Examine the significance of the Zollverein to the economic development of Germany before 1870.

7. British industry has been described as ‘retarded' between 1870 and 1914. How far can this view be justified?

8. ‘Indebtedness was the major problem confronting the major European countries in the 1920s. Discuss