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Industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period of technological and scientific advancement that transformed the world's economies and societies from agrarian to industrial -
Opium war
The Opium Wars were a series of mid-19th-century conflicts between China and Western powers, primarily Britain, triggered by China's attempts to suppress the opium trade -
Treaty of Nanjing
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Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa was a period of conflict and colonization of Africa by European powers from 1884 to 1914 -
The Berlin conference
The Berlin Conference was a meeting of European powers in 1884–1885 to divide Africa among themselves. The conference was a key event in the European colonization of Africa, known as the Scramble for Africa. -
Suez Canal Construction
The Suez Canal was built by digging and dredging through sand and alluvium to create a man-made river that connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas -
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a political revolution in Japan in 1868 that ended the Tokugawa shogunate and restored imperial rule. -
fashoda incident
The Fashoda Incident was a diplomatic crisis between France and Britain in 1898 that occurred in the Sudanese town of Fashoda. -
Boer War
The Boer War, also known as the South African War, was a conflict between the British Empire and the Boer republics in South Africa from 1899 to 1902