If the economy of the nineteenth-century world was formed mainly under the influence of the British Industrial Revolution, its politics and ideology were formed mainly by the French. Britain provided the model for its railways [5] and factories, the economic explosive which cracked open the traditional economic and social structures of the non-European world; but France made its revolutions and gave them their ideas, to the point where a tricolour flag of some kind became the emblem of virtually every emerging [10] nation, and European (or indeed world) politics between 1789 and 1917 were largely the struggle for and against the principles of 1789. France provided the vocabulary and the issues of liberal and radical-democratic politics for most of the [15] world. France provided the first great example, the concept and the vocabulary of nationalism. France provided the codes of law, the model of scientific and technical organization, the metric system of measurement for most countries. The ideology of the modern world first [20] penetrated the ancient civilizations which had until then resisted European ideas through French influence. This
was the work of the French Revolution.

Eric Hobsbawm. The age of revolution: 1789-1848. Abacus: London, 2007, p. 73-4 (adapted).

Judge the following based on the text above

The French Revolution was an important element in the dissemination of European ideals around the world.