Social Studies VSQ (2 Marks)

The vast territory lying between the Adriatic sea and the Black sea comprising the modern states of Greece, Romania, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia was known as the Balkans.
All these states were inhabited by people broadly known as Slavs as they were once the part of the Ottoman Empire, The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the spread of the ideas of Romantic nationalism made the Balkan region very explosive. The Balkan states were fiercely jealous of one another and each hoped to gain more territory at the expense of the others.

The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe:
i. Increase in population all over Europe.
ii. More job seekers than employment.
iii. Small producers in towns faced stiff competition from imports of cheap machine-made goods from England.
iv. Rural population migrated to urban areas, overcrowded slums.