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The Industrial Revolution describes a time span of Britain's economic development.
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This document states that people in the Americas would no longer take any European colonization on their land and would see this as an act of war.
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During the Opium Wars, Britain traded Opium for Chinese goods. Opium was highly addictive and addiction spread rapidly throughout China. The first Opium War was with Britain and China, and the second Opium War was Britain and France against China.
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This included the final demise of the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as the returned control of the country to direct imperial rule.
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BEIT (British East India Trading Company) dominated trade in India. It is rumored that pork/beef fat were used in British cartridges, to which the Indians were highly opposed and angry. This is considered the first Indian War of Independence.
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This was an era of political, economic, and social change. This time brought about the modernization and westernization of Japan.
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This canal was completed by France in 1869. It was called the "Highway to India." It reduced the travel distance by 43%.
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The conference was organized by Otto Von Bismarck. This prompted the "Scramble for Africa" which was the dividing of the African continent.
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Leopold II declared Congo "his own state." The Europeans were interested in the rubber and ivory in the Congo Free State.
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The Boxer Rebellion was a peasant uprising that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. The Boxers were a nickname for a Chinese secret society known as Yihequan (Righteous and Harmonious Fists)
