The Impact of the Seven Years War on Global Geopolitics

The French and American revolutions in a sense emerge from a multiplicity of causes. The seven years war saw Clive's victory at Plathy over the Nawab of Bengal. That period is instrumental in Britain becoming the major imperial power in India as opposed to France. So again that's very significant for what happens in South Asia Jeremy Black, former professor of history at the University of Exeter says there was nothing inevitable about a revolution when Louis the 16th called the estates general in 1789.