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Britain had begun to takeover future South Africa which it had begun in 1814 with the annexation of the Cape Colony
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Greece had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire
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The United Kingdom ceded the island of Hong Kong in perpetuity because the Treaty of Nanking was concluded.
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British fought towards legalization of the opium trade, to expand coolie trade, to open all of China to British merchants.
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British East India Trading Company had dominated India. BEIT used Sepoys as the rule-enforcing "militia." Citizens became angered when the cartridges were changed from beef and pork fat to enfield rifles.
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Britain gets control of egypet over its fearce rivals France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy
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"The Boxers" was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan. The Boxer rebellion was a peasant uprising of very early 1900s that attempted to drive all foriengers.
