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The East India Company was a massive British corporation that was founded under Queen Elizabeth I and rose to exploit overseas trade and become a dominating global player.
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Told the United States to leave the Western Hemisphere countries out and not try to take over.
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Dutch speaking colonist moved to the middle of southern Africa to find land where they could start their own homeland independent of British rule.
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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 was between the Qing and Great Britain. It was triggered by the dynasty's campaign against the British merchants who sold opium to Chinese merchants.
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David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary, abolitionist and physician known for his explorations of Africa, having crossed the continent during the mid-19th century.
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The Treaty of Nanjing was a peace treaty which ended the first Opium War between the United Kingdom and China
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent.
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He 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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Convention of Kanagawa or Kanagawa treaty, Japan-US treaty of peace and Amity was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Indian mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First war of independence, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India.
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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea level waterway in Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It defines the boarder between Asia and Africa.
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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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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Indian National Congress is a political party in India with widespread roots. It dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments.
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The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the policy that would allow for a system of trade in China.
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The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Britain took possession of the Dutch Cape colony in 1806 during the Napoleonic wars, sparking resistance from the independence-minded Boers, who resented the Anglicization of South Africa and Britain’s anti-slavery policies.
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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government. It was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign and anti-christian uprising in China.
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The Roosevelt Corollary 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 or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.”
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It was also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Xinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty