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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Chinese fight over British trade in China and China's sovereignty.
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Revolutions spreading throught Europe as one country inspires another.
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e East India Company, a major company at the time, collapsed because of the new weponry being produced.
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sepoy mutiny, India vs. the British East India company.
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John Speke, an army officer’s son from the West Country, was sent by East India Company.
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waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Making it more valuble to the europeans
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Egypt provided the quickest way of maintaining communications between Britain and India.
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Leopold: opend up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River.
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China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence.
