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Britain largely exchanged opium from the East India Company in India for the tead in China, since tea was so common back home in Britain. Lin Zexu created the anti-opium revolution that eventually caused him to be blamed for the Opium Wars.
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The signing of the treaty ended the Opium Wars. The Chinese had to pay 20 million silver dollars for all the costs and they had to give up Hong Kong as a colonial property for the British.
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Built by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the canal linked the Mediterranean and Red Sea. Costing $100 million at the time, the Suez Canal provided a main trade route to reduce travel time.
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Livingstone was known to be exploring the interior of the continent, but no one had heard from him in several years. Henry Morton Stanley found him in the town of Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, saying, ¨Dr. Livingstone, I presume?¨.
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The policy was created to open Chinese trade to all nations. This was likely due to the economic depression that occurred in the 1890s because it allowed to re-start the international trade
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Over the course of a few months, Chinese peasants set siege on the European part of Beijing. The Chinese government allowed this to happen, and after significant fighting, the European soldiers rose victorious
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A rebellion against the Qing dynasty to establish a modern, independent republic. The public won and eventually created a democracy
