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The East India company was formed by the English and formed the exploration of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.It was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East India spice trade.
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The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823.
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The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists.The Dutch were in the interior of South Africa looking for land to call their own.
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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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David Livingstone work as about Christianity. He went to Africa with a group of people and tried to spread Christianity to the locals.
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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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On July 8, 1853, 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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The Treaty of Kanagawa was an 1854 agreement between the United States of America and the government of Japan. 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 formed the Indian National Congress in order to form a platform for civil and political dialogue among educated indians.
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THe Sepoy rebellion was the first war of independence. It was widespread but unsuccessful against the british war in India.
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In 1858, British crown rule was established in India, ending a country of control By the East India Company.
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The Suez Canal is considered to be a border. Its starts at Port Said and the end is Port Tewfik, Suez.
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This tittle given to her was basically just a gesture to the link of the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to britain.
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The Boer War was fought over England and the self-governing Afrikaner/Boar colonies. The war was about Britain's control over South Africa.
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The Open Door policy was a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900. It called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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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. A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China.
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The Panama Canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.The Panama Canal was a huge boost to world trade and the economy.
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The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort 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 1911 Revolution also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Xinhai Revolution. It ended China's last imperial dynasty.