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Describe any five steps taken by the French    Revolutionaries to create a sense of collective identity among the French people.

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Describe any five steps taken by the French for the development of the ?Mekong Delta Region?.

Answer:

The French revolutionaries created a sense of collective identity amongst the French people through:

(i) New hymns, oaths and martyrs commemorated in the name of the nation.

(ii) A central administrative system made uniform laws for the entire nation.

(iii) Discouraging regional dialects and promoting French as a common language of the nation.

(iv) The ideas of la patrie (the fatherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) were emphasised to create a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.

(v) A new French flag, the tricolours, was chosen to replace the former royal standard.

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The French colonizers took many important steps for the development of the Mekong delta region of Vietnam. Five major steps among them are:

(i) The French authority started building canals and draining lands in the Mekong delta to increase cultivation.

(ii) The vast system of irrigation work including canals and earthworks was built mainly by forced labour of native people.

(iii) The area under rice cultivation was made larger. In 1873, the area under rice cultivation was 2,74,000 hectares but in 1930, it expanded to 2.2 million hectares.

(iv) Vietnam started to export two-thirds of it?s rice production and by 1931, it became the third largest exporter of rice in the world.

(v) The French authority developed infrastructure of Vietnam to help transport goods for trade. They constructed railway network that connected Vietnam to China and Vietnam to Siam (Thailand).