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Industrial Revolution
When the process of manufacturing had rapidly changed from making things by hands to using efficient machines this had caused many things such as the beginning of capitalism - an economic and social system in which participants privately own the means of production-. While before things could just be made cheaply and privately big machines were costly. There were also many developments in different fields such as the development of the coal industry, steam power and textile industry. -
Changing political and economic ideologies- Imperialism
Imperialism is the idea of expanding one's territory by taking over the territory of another. imperialism had played a large role in WW1 many powers wanting to expand and further their influence as it was becoming easier to produce materials due to the industrial revolution they needed to trade and expand for things that were more in demand for them. -
Tasmania’s Black War
The Black War is what the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 was named. It had almost caused the extermination of the Indigenous inhabitants of the island. Both had different views on each other the British saw them as savage or wild and the aboriginals had never seen people with such skin before. -
End of the Napoleonic Wars and British Hegemony
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies. Napoleon loosing was exiled to an island meaning Brittan became under the rule of England. -
The contestable nature of Ned Kelly’s legacy
Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer. People had varying opinions on if he was good or bad because the acts he did themselves would be seen as bad, but he may of not done them for bad or sinister reasons. -
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an armed and violent xenophobic, anti-Christian, and anti-imperialist insurrection in China between 1899 and 1901, near the end of the Qing dynasty. The people are empathetic towards them as they felt that they were being taken over and losing recourses. -
The Battle of Beersheba
The Battle of Beersheba (Turkish: Birüssebi Muharebesi, German: Schlacht von Birüssebi) was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked and captured the Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba.
