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The Suez canal was an artificial waterway built in egy[t connecting to the Mediterranean sea
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The East India Company was "formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600." It later gave in to politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in Asia
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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, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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The Great Trek is when Dutch speaking colonist went to south Afrika to rule land away from the British.
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2 wars fought between China, France, and Britain in which case the foreign invaders always won. The invaders gained commercial rights and concessions in China.
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Livingstone was a missionary who brought it upon himself to ensure that everyone knew about Christianity. He worked very hard to end slavery and help Africa and he made a lot of progress. He was very important and a very good guy who really influenced missionaries today
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In Tokyo, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan.
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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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Also know as the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy rebellion was a "widespread but unsuccessful rebellion". Beginning in Meerut sepoys fought against the british and the rebellion spread all the way to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.
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An Indian Subcontinent was put under british rule after the Sepoy rebellion and Queen Victoria basically ruled them and this was Imperialism.
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Benjamin Disraeli had Queen Victoria crowned Impress of India, though she already wore the crown this gesture linked the monarchy with the British empire.
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Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The project was helped by the elimination of disease-carrying mosquitoes, while chief engineer John Stevens devised innovative techniques and spurred the crucial redesign from a sea-level to a lock canal.
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On the 28th of December in 1885 the Indian National Congress was founded at "Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance." Hume assumed office as the General Secretary and Womesh of Calcutta was elected Presidenthttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Indian-National-Congress
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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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A war fought between Afrikaners and the British. Also called the Second war of independence the war was fought over a 3 year old party.
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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 Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would interve.ne as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors
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Nationalist democratic revolt that overthrew the Qing (or Manchu) dynasty in 1912 and created a republic.
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The treaty that ended the first Opium war. The treaty was very unfair for China, they payed the British to leave Hong Kong and the British gained much more Merchant rights.
