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Also known as the Qing Dynasty. Began after ousting the Ming emperor. Manchus were an ethnic elite; forbade Chinese to learn Manchu language or to marry Manchus. They made 3% of the population, so they needed help running the empire, so they still allowed Chinese to run the country. They allowed trade with the Europeans until they felt threatened,
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The Ottoman empire still holding out after hundreds of years of empirical decay. WWI finally ended Ottoman Empire, splitting the empire between Russia and America.
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Robert Clive, leader of the British East India Company, conquered the Bengal region(present day Bangladesh), an amazing feat given that the East India Company was a corporation
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Began in Britain, then spread throughout Europe making them the world powers. It eventually spread to Japan and then the United States of America who surpassed Britain as being the most industrialized.
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Earlier created by Thoma Newcommer, James Watt greatly improved upod the efficiency of the design.
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The thirteen colonies revolt agains great britain. The main reasons were taxation witout representation and havin to quarter troops.
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The thirteen colonies won. New constitution
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He decided that he wanted to raise the taxes on the public because of war debts from the Seven Years' War. however, to do this, he needed to call together the Estates General which was essentially a Parliament of the People but refused to allow them to act as a unified body.
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Felt threatened that they would get shut out of the vote by the other two estates.
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The french peasentry was restless because they felt like they weren't going to recieve the reforms they wanted. Began the sweep of anarchy.
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Adopted by the National Assembly, it was a document that recognized the natural rights based on the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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As Enlightenment set root in Europe, people became more and more opposed to slave trade.Between 1807 and 1820, most european nations abolished the slave trade though slavery itself wasnt abolished until later.
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Many of these fight were against Western European countries like portugal and spain.
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Congress decided that a balance of powers should be instantiated to prevent another Napoleon from rising in Europe.
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Brazil and Mexico along with other south american countries gained their independence.
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Started when the Chinese seized British opium in Canton in 1839. Britain and China fought until British won. Treaty of Nanjing gave Britain considerable rights to expand trade with Chinese.
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America was having little conflicts that ended up leading to a war.
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Karl Marx's Manifesto, he and Friedrich Engels stated that the working class would revolt against the rich and royal. This idea spawned Socialism and Communism.
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America expanded its land boundaries.
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King Victor Emmanuel II and his PM began a strong nationalism policy which took off and continued up through the 1960's.
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The British and French Governments were afraid of the consequences of Russian Expansion. As a result, they prevented Russia from winning this territory
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US Commodor Matthew Perry arrived in Japan and forced them to open trade with the US.
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The East India Company relied on Sepoys, Indians who worked for the British, mostly as soldiers. Sepoys were angered by the British not respecting their culture. When they learned their bullet cartridges were lined with pork and cow fat(which they had to bite off), which was against their Hindu and Muslim dietary laws, they rebelled. The rebellion failed, and British parliament made India a crown colony.
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Society of R ighteous and Harmonious Fists, or Boxers, organized in response to the Manchu governement's defeats and concessions to the Western powers and Japan. Infuriated, the Boxers' goal was to drive the Europeans and Japanese out of China. Adopting guerilla warfare tactics, the Boxers killed Christian missionaries. Instead, foreign reinforcements put them down.
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Appointed PM, he began conquering the northern states of Germany then formed an alliance with Southern Germany. he then provoked a war between France and Prussia. He later crowned the king of the second reich.
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War between norther part of country and the southern part. Led to famaly member against family member.
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Passed by president Lincoln to free the slaves.
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Alexander II issued the Emancipation Edict which freed all of the Serfs. As a result, they were given small plots of land to farm with rediculous taxation.
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Union victory.
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Ushered in an era of Japanese westernization, after which Japan emerged as a world power. By the 1870s Japan was building railways and steamships. By 1876, the samurai warrior class as an institution had been abolished, and universal military service among all males was established.
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Latin america had an export boom leading to much wealth.
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A group of well-educated Indians formed the Indian National Congress to begin the path towards independence.
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French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. During World War II, the Viet Minh revolted against French rule.
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Fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea
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Japanese won.
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Japanese kicked Russia out of Manchuria and established their own sphere of influence there. Helped make Japan a world power.
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Created to advance the causes of Islamic Indians.
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A major decline in th Latin american countrie exports.
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Global war that led to the deacrease in germany's size.
