Continuity and Change in the Modern Period

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    Hight point of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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    Europe's Industrialization

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    Rule of the British East India Company over India

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    American Revolution

    The end of which signifies the writing of the American Constitution
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    Haitian Revolution

  • China rejects British request for open trade

    Signifies growing tensions between China and the West
  • Slavery Abolition Act

    Britain establishes an act in which they gradually outlaw the trading and ownership of slaves throughout Britain, starting a trend of abolitionist acts across Europe
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    Tanzimat Reforms

    Signifies the failure of the Ottoman Empire to industiralized
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    Second Opium War

    Signifies the signing over of much of the Chinese governing power to alien powers
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    United States of America's Industrial Revolution

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    Scramble for African territory by European powers

    1875
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    European Colonial Conquests of Africa

  • Proclamation of the Japanese Constitution

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    Japan Imperialist Period

  • First Russian Revolution

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    End of the Qing Dynasty

    On a greater scale, signifies the end of the dynastic era
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    World War One

  • Start of the Great Depression

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    World War Two

    Signifies the time period of the atrocity of the Holocaust
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    Cold War

    Tensions between the Communist and Capitalist worlds
  • Communist triumph in China

    The beginning of the Mao regime
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    Korean War

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    African Independences from Colonial power

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

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    Vietnam War

  • Meiji Restoration

    Finishes off the Tokugawa period
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    Soviets in Afganistan

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

  • End of Apartheid in South Africa

  • Formation of the Eu