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Christian missionaries moved into Africa
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The British overtook Cape colony from the Batavian Republic.
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Britain outlaws slavery and slave trade. This is known as the Slave Trade Act of 1807
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French conquests spread ideas of the French Revolution. France wanted to over-throw their king but the french rebals were unable to unite anybody.
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Shaka, Zulu chief, unifies Nguni peoples and forges an impressive fighting force, launching the mfecane against neighboring black Africans and white Europeans throughout southern Africa.
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France, Portugal, and Spain abolish slavery in their countries.
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Dutch-descent Boers north to lands across Orange River into Natal, South Africa, occupied by southern Nguni peoples.
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53 African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade. This is what started the Amistad Revolt.
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England declares a war with China involving the fight over opium
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Europeans want Africa's major resources like coca, coffe, sugar, peanuts, cotton, rubber, tea, palm oil, timber, and tobacco.
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The new enfield rifles were used (rumor: the cartridges were sealed with beef and pork fat…when the cartridges were changed, the citizens became angrier.
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European troops in India proceeded slowly towards Delhi and fought, killed, and hanged numerouse indians.
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The East India Company collapes due to the Sepoy rebellion and the enfield rifle.
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The "First war of Idependece". India and Pakistan would not gain full independence for another 90 years.
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British forces fought for the ligilization of opium trade. Eventually more than 80 ports in China were made. All forgine trade travel was allowed in China.
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The Meiji Restoration of 1868 came to be identified with the era of major political, economic, and social change—the Meiji period (1868–1912)—brought about the modernization and Westernization of Japan.
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The British built the Suez Canal so the East India Trading Company would dominate trade in India.
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“Survival of the Fittest” Certain groups of people are better, more likely
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European countries control all of Africa except Liberia and ethiopia.
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Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy Scramble for land and resources in 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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European countries decide to divid up West Africa.
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Cecil Rhodes claimed the diamond mines for Great Britain. He used his personal wealth to establish his own
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Egypt was falling into debt and that is when England striked
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King leopold establishes the Congo Free State, under his personal control. There will be no role of grnment of Belgium.
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European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. Countries decided on who gets what parts of Africa.
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Federation of eight French colonial territories included Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Dahomey, and Niger
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The Boxer Rebellion was a peasant uprising of
very early 1900s that attempted to drive all
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It is the white man’s duty to rule other countries.
Ruling the entire world benefits everybody. -
Word got out the King Leopold was mistreating the people in Congo from the Church monistaries.
