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the industrial revolution is based on agriculture and handicrafts being put into economies based on large-scale industry. With new power sources, new machines and a new way of organising them. it made the population increase too.
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the Napoleonic wars was when France couldn't challenge Britain anymore and ending up falling from being empire. Britain then became the most powerful hegemony.
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stringybark creek is creek in Victoria, Australia where Ned Kelly brutally murdered three policemen 26th October, 1878. some people saw Ned Kelly as a hero because he help loads of people including little kids who couldn't stick up for themselves but some people also saw Ned Kelly as villain because he killed people.
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The boxer Rebellion was a Chinese secret society, known as the boxer to drive all foreigners from China. it was started by peasants but the government ended up joining in too.
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when the British ships arrived at Bruny island in the late 1700s there was between 6,000 - 10,000 aboriginals living there. by 1830 acts of violence and introduced diseases wiped out all people