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The Opium Wars are when the British fought the Chinese. The British were smuggling in opium into China and the Chinese wanted to stop it. The British easily defeated the Chinese.
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The Treaty of Nanjing was a treaty that granted the British money and Hong Kong. It was an unequal treaty
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The Sepoy Rebellion was when Indian soilders rebelled against the British. The British put down the revolt within a year.
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British Raj is modern day's India. This was a time period when the British were dominating the Indians and shaping their society
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The Suez Canal was a canal that connected The Red Sea to the Meditteranean Sea. This was built in effort to modernize Egypt but was then occupied by the British because Egypt could not pay their debt.
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The Boer War was when the dutch settlers fought the british.. They fought the British because there was diamonds and gold so many people went to South Africa and tried to rebel and the Boers blamed it on the british. The British ended up winning
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The Revolution o 1911 was when the Chinese who desired a modern, independent republic rebelled against the Qing dynasty. They ended up winning and this created a democracy.
