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Industrial Revoloution
The Industrial Revoloution was a period of rapid technological movements. This led to a mass production of goods. This fueled imperialism by creating new markets for raw materials to grow. -
Opium War
The opium war was the effect of China trying to supress the illegal opium trade. Which led to serious economic disruption. And British primarily traded the drugs to China. -
Treaty of Nanjing
The Treaty of Nanjing was the treaty that ended the first Opium. The first of the unequal treaties between China and foregin imperialist powers. China paid the British an indemnity, and established a resoanble tarrif. -
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Meji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a political revolution in Japan in 1868 that ended the Tokugawa shogunate and restored imperial rule. The restoration led to a period of rapid modernization and Westernization, known as the Meiji era (1868–1912). The Meiji Restoration led to Japan's expansionism and emergence as a world power through imperialism -
Berlin Confrence
The Berlin Conference was a meeting of European colonial powers to regulate trade and colonization in Africa. The conference established guidelines for dividing up Africa among European nations. The conference was organized by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany.The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of European powers that formalized the colonization of Africa and marked the beginning of modern European imperialism. -
Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa is the name given to the way in which European countries brought nearly all of the African continent under their control as part of their separate empires. The Scramble for Africa began in the 1880s. By 1914 the only African countries not controlled by a European power were Liberia and Ethiopia. The Scramble for Africa was a race among European nations to claim African territory during the Age of Imperialism. -
Fashoda Incident
The Fashoda Incident was a confrontation between France and Britain in 1898 over control of the Upper Nile River basin in Sudan. The incident was the result of a series of territorial disputes between the two countries over their colonial possessions in Africa. The climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa -
Boer War
The Boer War, also known as the South African War, was a colonial war fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. The war was the result of long-standing tensions in the region. The Boer War was a devastating conflict at the height of European imperialism in Africa. -
Russo-Japanease war
Russo-Japanese War, (1904–05), military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia, thereby becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power. The Russo-Japanese War is directly tied to imperialism because it was a conflict primarily driven by both Russia and Japan's competing ambitions. -
Suez Canal Construction
The Suez Canal was built by hand and with machinery over a period of 10 years, starting in 1859 and ending in 1869. The canal was constructed to connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, allowing ships to travel between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans without going around Africa.The victory also led to British control over the Suez Canal.