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East India Company
Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century.
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. The doctrine warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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Great Trek
The Great Trek is regarded by Afrikaners as a central event of their 19th-century history and the origin of their nationhood. It enabled them to outflank the Xhosa peoples who were blocking their eastward expansion, to penetrate into Naval and the Highveld.
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Opium Wars
Two armed conflicts in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911/12.
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David Livingstone Missionary Work
David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary. He sought to bring Christianity and commerce and civilization to Africa and undertook three extensive expeditions throughout the continent.
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Treaty of Nanjing
The Treaty of Nanjing ended the first Opium War. This treaty was the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers.
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Matthew C. Perry in Japan
He headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation.
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Treaty of Kanagawa
The Treaty of Kanagawa (also called Perry Convention) was Japan's first treaty with a Western nation. It marked the end of Japan's period of seclusion.
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Sepoy Rebellion
This war was widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857-58. It began in Meerut by Indian troops in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.
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British Raj Founded
The British Raj was a period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company.
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Suez Canal Built
The Suez Canal separates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
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Queen Victoria Crowned Empress of India
Queen Victoria was crowned the Queen of the UK. She also held the additional title the first Empress of India.
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Panama Canal Built
The Panama Canal was owned and administered by the Republic of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama.
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Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. Subsequently, it formed most of India's governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments.
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Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy was a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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Boer War
The Boer War was fought between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic. Fought between wholly unequal protagonists.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occured in China. It began with peasants, but eventually was supported by the government.
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Roosevelt Corollary
This foreign policy stated that cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States would intervene in that country's internal affairs.
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Revolution of 1911
Most of the Manchu had lived in comparative idleness, supposedly a standing army of occupation but in reality inefficient pensionaries. All through the 19 century the dynasty had been declining, and upon death of the empress dowager Cixi, it lost its last able leader. https://www.britannica.com/event/Chinese-Revolution-1911-1912
