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The East India Company was formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company
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In his address to Congress, President James Monroe articulated United States' policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas and the role of Europe in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own homeland, independent of British rule. <img src="blob:chrome-untrusted://media-app/291ac7cd-a241-48f8-af21-972984af133c" alt="download (1).jpeg"/>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlZpo580bA8 The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century. The First Opium War, fought in 1839–1842 between the Qing and Great Britain, was triggered by the dynasty's campaign against the British merchants who sold opium to Chinese merchants.
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The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China.
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American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
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In what became known as "the opening of Japan," the two countries agreed to engage in limited trade and to agree to the safe return of American sailors who had become shipwrecked in Japanese waters.
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The east india company required sepoys to serve overseas which was against the sepoy's religion. Some effects of the rebellion was a bitter legacy and a mistrust on both sides. the rebellion also resulted in the brutal masscre of british men, women, and children.
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Livingstone wanted to reach new people in Africa and teach them about Christianity, and free them from being slaves.<img src="blob:chrome-untrusted://media-app/2dcd451f-2453-4c5a-9265-6df3bf2be727" alt="220px-Preaching_from_a_Waggon_(David_Livingstone)_by_The_London_Missionary_Society.jpg"/>
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India.
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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It is often considered to define the border between Africa and Asia
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This title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain.
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There was a Boer ultimatum that the British should cease building up their forces in the region. 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. <img src="blob:chrome-untrusted://media-app/06a8d0d6-03a2-4798-9f7a-169b0b8994d3" alt="300px-Boers_at_Spion_Kop,1900-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_16462.jpg"/>
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The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected President.
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The Open Door Policy was a policy between China, the US, Japan, and several European powers that stated each of those countries should have equal access to Chinese trade.
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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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Roosevelt's Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that declared the United States could intervene, or use military force to keep peace, in Latin American countries when necessary. Because of this, this was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine, and became a part of the US foreign policy.
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The 1911 Revolution also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Xinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty. And on January 1, 1912, this revolution established the Republic of China.
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The Panama Canal was opened to traffic. Panama later pushed to revoke the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, and in 1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama by the end of the century.
