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During the Napoleonic wars, the Cape passed first to the British (1795-1803) then to the Batavian Republic (1803-1806), and then to the British again in 1806
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The Opium Wars were two wars involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of Opium.
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The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the first Opium War.
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The Indian Rebellion was a major uprising in India against the rule of the British East India compnay.
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Germany became a modern unified nation under the leadership of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto Von Bismarck who effectively ruled first Prussia and then all of Germany until 1890.
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German-Danish war, also called the second schelswig war, was the 2nd of two conflicts over the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question.
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War betwenPrussia on one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other.
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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt
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Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power
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German states (excluding Austria) united to create the German empire under Prussian leadership .
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The scramble for Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, and colonization of African territory.
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From 1882-1914, Egypt was a veiled protectorate of Britain, meaning that the British controlled most of Egypt.
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The Berlin Conference regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism.
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The convention of Constantinople was a treaty signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austo-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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Formerly known as French Somaliand and the French territory of the Afars and Issas the country took its name when it gained independence from France.
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