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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium War
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The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Civil War was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864 fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace.
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A treaty allowing the 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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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company, that ran from May 1857 to July 1859.
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Reforms initiated in China following a series of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers.
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Japan evolved in order to avoid being taken over by Europeans by modernizing their counrty
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Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
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The Fashoda Incident or Crisis was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa
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A poem by Rudyard Kipling explaining that white Europeans had the obligation to share their culture with less fortunate people.
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The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer republics in the 1880s further intensified the rivalry, particularly as British subjects flooded into the Boer territories in search of wealth.
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.
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The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War.
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They convinced the British to make Siam a buffer state between GB and France
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Made it so ships did not have to go around South Africa, they could go through a canal in central America
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A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945