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Industrial Revolution
a period of technological and scientific advancement that transformed the world's economies and societies from agrarian to industrial. led to colonization due to newer technological advances -
Opium War
The Opium Wars were a series of conflicts between China and Britain over the opium trade. The wars resulted in China being forced to legalize opium. How this was connected to imperialism is because they forced China to trade with them. -
Treaty of Nanjing
a peace treaty signed on August 29, 1842, between Great Britain and China. It ended the First Opium War and is considered the first of the "unequal treaties" that forced China into imperial international law. It forced China to trade with the British with unfair policies, which connects to imperialism -
Suez Canal Construction
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, creating the shortest sea route between Europe and Asia. The canal was designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, a Frenchman who was permitted to build it by the Ottoman viceroy. They would use this canal for trading routes and conquering new lands. -
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a political revolution in Japan that took place in 1868 and led to a period of rapid modernization and Westernization. It allowed Japan to develop into a modern industrial nation-state that rivaled European nations in both military and economic power. -
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Scramble for Africa
The name is given for how European countries brought nearly all of the African continent under their control as part of their separate empires. Led to Europeans taking parts of Africa without Africans knowing -
Berlin Conference
The conference was held to formalize the claims of European nations to African colonies and to establish rules for colonization. The Africans not knowing what was happening, led the Europeans to take their raw materials and other resources without their knowledge. -
Fashoda Incident
The Fashoda Incident was the result of a series of territorial disputes between the two countries over their colonial possessions in Africa. This would lead to fights breaking out between the two countries disputing. -
Boer War
The origins of the Boer War lay in Britain's desire to unite, or confederate, the British South African territories of the Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan from 1904 to 1905. The war was fought over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.