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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France
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Adam Smith, a Scottish political economist and philosopher, wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776
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The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799
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On January 1, 1804, Haiti, located in the West Indies, made history by being the first Black Country to gain its independence
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The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states
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Opium war was fought between Great Britain and China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals.
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Communist Manifesto is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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On March 31 1854 representatives of Japan and the United States signed a historic treaty. A United States naval officer, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, negotiated tirelessly for several months with Japanese officials to achieve the goal of opening the doors of trade with Japan.
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857.
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Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between peasants and nobility in the 17th century, and it was abolished by a decree issued by czar Alexander II Serfdom was abolished in 1861, but its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to increase revolutionary pressures.
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President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves; with nearly all the rest (of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced.
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At the Versailles Palace’s Hall of Mirrors in France, a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred. Unification exposed several glaring religious, linguistic, social, and cultural differences between and among the inhabitants of the new nation
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The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, while simultaneously removing most existing forms of African laws and self-governance.
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This was America's first war as a World Power. After defeating Spain, then conquered the Philippines and Cuba. But, they didn't fight the colony just to join another one.
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two wars fought during 1880–1881 and 1899–1902
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The first great war of the 20th century. The cause of the war was the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea.
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This was the overthrowing of China's last Imperial Dynasty. Which was the Qing dynasty.
