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WIlliam Lee invented the stocking frame, the mechanical device for knitting stockings.
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British East India Company eastablished.
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Almost complete isolation of Japan from the rest of the world.
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intiliation of the canton system
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They form a national assembly swearing not to leave until a new constitution is established.
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Armed Citizens storm and capture the Bastille
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Peseants begin to revolt across France.
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1789 Toussaint L'Ouverture leads slave revolt in Saint Domingue/Hispaniola - demands rights from the National Assembly
1803 - Napoleoon covers his losses in French West Indies by selling Louisiana to Us for $15,000,000 -
Eli Whitney develops cotton gin and device to clean raw cotton.
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1806/Continetal System - Napoleon blockades continent from British trade, Portugal ignores blockade/France invades through Spain, 1808/Peninsular War with Spain Spanish nationalisms grows as Napoleons brother, Joseph is crowned king.
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Dictatorship an outgrowth of democracy.. so Surround French strong countries, balance of power/no country a threat, restore royal families
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british traders ignore manchu regulations china declares war, the opium war
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Commodore Matthew Perry forces the Japanese government to open a limited number of ports for trade.
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Lose because not as industralized, other Europeans, early reforms to protect Russian serfs emancipation 1861 had to pay for land, increases urban population no increase in ag production Need for Industrilization later reforms, law equal, local political councils, military increase.
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1868 - Meiji restoration
abolishes feudalism expand centralized power samurai class abolished, improvized, revolt, defeated, create new nobility
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Trans Siberean Railroad open up Siberia improve banking encourage Western investment.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telelphone
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Betwen China and Japan primarily over control of Korea.
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The Russco-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century. It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.
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The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
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between China and Japan from 1941 on as part of World War II Other wars involving China and Japan were.
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Qing Dynasty begins a long decline. Western powers impose unequal treaties that create foreign concessions in China's ports. Regional warlords rase as central government atrophies
