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Opium wars

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  • Lasted from 1839-1842
  • fought between the British and the Qing china to protect British trade in Opium
  • resulted in the ceding of Hong King to Britain
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Boston Massacre

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  • march 5, 1770
  • British army soldiers milled five males and injured six others
  • American colonists protestors called “patriots” protested the occupation of their city by British troops
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Battle of the pyramids

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  • July 21,1798 dying French invasion of Egypt
  • Napoleon Bonaparte vs Ottoman Empire and MAMLUKS leaders
  • French victory wiped out almost the entire Egyptian Army
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Shay’s Rebellion

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  • armed uprising in Massachusetts during 18 century
  • Daniel shays led 4000 revels in an uprising against economy injustices for farmers
  • state and local enforcement of tax collections
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Haiti Revolution

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  • from 1791-1804
  • slaves and people of color rose up against white planters
  • 10,000 British soldiers died
  • revolutions like this fuels the abolitionist movement
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Women march in Versailles

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  • October 4th 1789
  • crowd of women demanding bread for their families gather other civilians and marched toward Versailles
  • the king agree to meet with some & promises to distribute all the bread to the crowd
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American Revolutionary War

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  • 1776-1783
  • war between 13 colonies and Great Britain
  • Americans won independence in 1781 although the fighting lasted until 1783
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Caste war

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  • Mexico
  • revolt of native maya people of Yucatán against the European descended population, Yucatecos
  • yucatecos had political and economic control of the region
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Great Rebellion

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  • Indian Rebellion of 1857
  • against the rule of the British east India company
  • Britain had forced new laws, new technology and Christianity on them with violence.
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Taiping Rebellion

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  • cause by discontent with the corrupt Qing Dynasty
  • lasted for 14 years
  • rebels capture nanjing in 1853 and made it their capital
  • led by Hung Hsiu Chuan
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White lotus Rebellion

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  • series of uprisings in China from 1790s-1800s
  • inspired by mystical beliefs in folk Buddhism
  • appealed to women and the poor who were against the Qing dynasty
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The French Revolution

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  • war between France and Great Britain
  • was influenced by Enlightenment ideals
  • like popular sovereignty & inalienable rights
  • occurred after French king Louis XVI was executed in 1793
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Wahhabi Rebellion

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  • Arabian peninsula
  • Ottoman Empire and the first Saudi Stare, Emirare of Diriyah
  • alliance formed between Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab & Muhammad bin Saud
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Maji Maji Revolt

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  • most significant African rebellion against German colonial rule
  • When Germany established its control over Tanganyika by 1898, it imposed a particularly violent regime in order to control the population, including a policy of killing kings who resisted German occupation
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Herero Revolt

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  • African territory was claimed and occupied by Germany
  • oppressive and the indigenous cultures were gradually being destroyed.
  • A rebellion by Herero people in Namibia broke out in January 1904 and continued until 31 March 1907.
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South African war

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  • Boer War
  • independence, war fought from Oct. 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902
  • between Great Britain and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republics—the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State—resulting in British victory
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Chinese republican revolution

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  • In October of 1911
  • revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty
  • establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.
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Crimean war

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  • A major European conflict of the 19th century
  • an alliance led by Britain and France challenge Russian expansion
  • In short, Russia was expanding into the Danube region – Romania today. This was under Turkish control. Therefore, Turkey and Russia went to war in 1853, and the following year Britain and France – fearful of Russian expansion – became involved
  • cause great reforms by Tsar in Russia
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Civil war

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  • War between the north and confederate states in south
  • most costliest war fought in America
  • southern states lost
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Franco-Prussian war

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  • War of 1870,
  • conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
  • resulted in the creation of a unified Germany.
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Spanish - American war

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  • fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
  • ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas
  • U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin Americ
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Russo -Japanese war

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  • fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival of royal ambitions
  • Manchuria and Korea.
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Mexican Revolution

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  • began in 1910,
  • ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic.
  • Though a constitution drafted in 1917 formalized many of the reforms sought by rebel groups, periodic violence continued into the 1930s.
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Boxer Uprising

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  • violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising
  • that took place in China between 1899 and 1901,
  • towards the end of the Qing dynasty.
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Sino-Japanese war

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  • conflict between Japan and China
  • marked Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese empire.
  • the two countries wanted supremacy in Korea.
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Battle of Adwa

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  • March 1896
  • between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy
  • near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigra
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World war 1

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  • Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States.
  • It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused.

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