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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph -
Migrations was possible thanks to new meand of trsansport, specially steamship, wich reduce time travel. Crosing the Atlantic Ocean went from 1 month to only 5 days -
All colonial powers wanted to be apart of China's market. The Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60) forced China to open to western trade.
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European and American explorers traveled across Africa from 1850 onwards. -
Before 1850 Africa, Asia and the oceans were unknow to Europeans
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Britain have the largest colonial empire and controlled maritime trade rutes.
In Africa, the british created an empire from Cairo in the North to Cape Town in the south.
To create a secure area around India , Great Britain competed with France for the control of Burma ( 1866) and with Russia for Afghanistan and Tibet. -
Agricultural reforms industrialisation and advances in meidcine and hygiene caused a huge reduction in the death rate line in Europe.
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Between these years countries such as Great Britain and France created empires by conquering land in Africa and Asia
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Between 1870 and 1914 countries such as Gerat Britain or France created empires by conquering land in Africa and Asia
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Graham Bell invented the telephone -
Made rules for European colonization and trade in Africa.
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It led to the use of cars and lorries. The base of transport in the 20th century. -
Hertz proves the principles of electromagnetic waves -> Macarani invented the radio -
It was a predominately French art movement.
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The Lumière brothers invented the cinema. -
It was the climactic battle of the first Ethiopian War -
The war began on October 11 1899, following a Boer ultimatum that the British should cease building up their forces in the region. The Boers had refused to grant political rights to non-Boer settlers, known as Uitlanders, most of whom were British, or to grant civil rights to Africans.
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It was an emprising against foreigners that occurred in China. -
It was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against German colonial rules.