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East India Company was founded December 32, 1600; It was founded to trade with Indian ocean region.
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President James Monroe in December 1823 wrote this letter to congress warning European nations that the U.S. would no longer tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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The Great Trek is a migration of dutch-speaking people starting in Southern Africa, Cape Colony, and ended in Marico Valley. This was all in rebellion against the british rules.
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The Opium Wars was two wars fought between Qing Dynasty and Western powers. It was caused by China trying to sell illegal Opium that lead to a widespread addiction in China, Britain traders were the primary source of the drug.
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The Treaty of Nanjing was a peace treaty that ended the 1st Opium War. From this treaty Britain gained Hong Kong.
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July 8, 1853, Matthew C. Perry led his 4 ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, to start trade with Japan and the western world for the first time in over 200 years.
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The treaty of Kanagawa was signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate; 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 Sepoy Rebellion is also known as the Indian Mutiny; It was an unsuccessful attempt to rebel against the British.
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British Raj was a kingdom that was under british rule, so it was called Crown rule in India.
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Livingstone explored Africa and got lost near Congo for about 5 months, and was found by reporter, Henry Morton Stanley, around November 1871.
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As a way to link Britain closer to India, King Lytton crowned Queen Victoria as Crown of India in 1877.
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The building of Panama canal was to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific to ship goods. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the building of the canal.
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The first modern nationalist to emerge from the British Empire in Asia and Africa was a political party, the Indian National Congress.
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The Open Door Policy was a statement of principles made by the United States, it caused equal privileges for all trading with China and included benefits to China.
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The Boer war was fought over political rights, and was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states---Orange Free State, and South African Republic.
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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners in China around 1900's. It was started by the peasants, but soon supported by the government. A Chinese secret society known as the boxers started a violent campaign to rid of all foreigners in the country.
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December 1904, was an add-on to the Monroe Doctrine written by President Theodore Roosevelt to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States.
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The Revolution of 1911(a.k.a The Chinese revolution) that overthrew China's last Imperial Dynasty and established the Republic of China.
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The Suez Canal is a waterway connecting the Mediterranean sea to the Red sea, opened officially in November 17, 1869.
