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The Industrial Revolution was a period of technological and scientific advancement that transformed the world's economies and societies from agrarian to industrial -
The Opium Wars were a series of mid-19th century conflicts between China and Western powers, primarily Britain, triggered by China's attempts to suppress the opium trade, leading to military action by the Western powers to force open Chinese markets and secure favorable trade terms, resulting in unequal treaties that significantly weakened China's sovereignty -
a peace treaty signed on August 29, 1842, between Great Britain and China. It ended the First Opium War and is considered the first of the "unequal treaties" that forced China into imperial international law. -
Construction began in April 1859 at the northernmost end of the canal in Port Said. The canal was dug by hand, and it's estimated that 1.5 million people worked on the project. The cost of construction was more than double the original estimate, reaching 433 million Francs (17,320,000 Egyptian Pounds) -
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On January 3, 1868, samurai and court nobles overthrew the shogunate and restored power to the emperor, Mutsuhito, who took the reign name Meiji. The restoration ended the Edo period (1603–1867) and marked the beginning of the Meiji era (1868–1912).
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Due to the industrail revolution and imperialsim the British wanted to control gold mining in the region and bring the Transvaal and the Orange Free State under British control. -
The Second Industrial Revolution and the era of "New Imperialism" drove European powers to claim control of African territory. The colonizing countries arbitrarily divided the continent into colonial territories, often splitting tribes in half or creating large, difficult-to-control territories -
The conference was held to formalize the claims of European nations to African colonies and to establish rules for colonization. -
The Fashoda Incident was a confrontation between France and Britain in 1898 that occurred in the Sudan during the Scramble for Africa wich was caused by counties fighting for land and recources and countries. -
The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan from 1904 to 1905. The war was fought over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula -
territories have been claimed and faught over