Question

explain the conditions that were viewed as economic obstacles to the economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes during the 19th century in europe.

Answer 1

• In the 19^th century, there was a strong demand of the rising middle classes.
• In the German-speaking regions in the first half of the 19^th century, Napoleon’s administrative measures created a confederation of 39 states, out of several small principalities. Each of these had its own currency, its own weights and measures.
• Duties were generally levied according to the weights or measurement of the goods.
• This was a time-consuming calculation, as each region had its own system of weights and measures
• Such conditions were impediments to economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes, who wanted the creation of a unified economic territory with unrestricted movement of goods, people and capital.​​

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