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The East India Company was an English company that was founded in 1600.
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American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay.
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The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa.
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The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century.
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The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China on 29 August 1842.
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Kanagawa Treaty, Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate on March 31, 1854.
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The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress.
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it was an unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.
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It is often considered to define the border between Africa and Asia. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869
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In 1877, Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India.
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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The Indian National Congress is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885.
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The Open Door policy was a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900. It called for the protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China.
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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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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government.
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The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors.
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The 1911 Revolution also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Xinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty.