Imperialism summative timeline

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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

    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

    Treaty of Nanjing
    The treaty forced China to open its ports to Western traders and ceded Hong Kong to Britain.
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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
    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

    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

    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

    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