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| 12657748183 | Treaty of Nanking | in 1842, this treaty ended the Opium War, which made Hong Kong a British colony and opened up five ports to foreign commerce instead of only the port of Canton. | 0 | |
| 12657748184 | Wahhabi Rebellion | an early 19th century attempt to restore Ottoman power through the return to traditional Islam and strict shariah law. | 1 | |
| 12657748185 | Young Turks | a society founded in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform the empire. | 2 | |
| 12657748186 | Second Perry Expedition | this expedition to Japan in 1854 opened two ports to trade with the United States. Later, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Russia initiated trade relations with Japan. As Japan industrialized, it depended on imports of Western equipment and raw materials, especially coal. | 3 | |
| 12657748187 | Indian Opium | Great Britain, became increasingly concerned over having to pay large amounts of silver for Chinese luxury goods. British merchants solved the trade imbalance by trading Opium to China. This new type of Opium was a higher quality than Chinese-grown opium, took such a hold on Chinese society that soon the Chinese were forced to pay for the product with large quantities of their silver. | 4 | |
| 12657748188 | Duma | the Russian Parliament. | 5 | |
| 12657748189 | Settler Colonies | Western Europeans continued to colonize and settle regions of the Americas, India, Africa, the Pacific and Southeast Asia well into the 18th century. These colonies not only brought about rivalries between Europeans and native peoples, but also, as in the Columbian Exchange of the 16th and 17th century, exposed the indigenous people to European diseases. | 6 | |
| 12657748190 | Berlin Conference | (1884-1885) Meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them. | 7 | |
| 12657748191 | Boer War | (1899-1902) War between the British and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory. | 8 | |
| 12657748192 | Boers | South Africans of Dutch decent. | 9 |
