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Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt
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First Opium War
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Treaty of Nanking
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The Taiping Rebellion
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Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade
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Second Opium War
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The Sepoy Rebellion
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Britain crushes Great Rebellion in India
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Reign of Ismail in Egypt
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Meiji Restoration in Japan
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End of the Anglo-Zulu War
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Berlin Conference
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Japanese Invasion of Korea
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Ethiopia defeats Italy at the Battle of Adwa
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Hundred day of reform in China
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Battle of Omdurman
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Samory Touré defeated by the French
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US takes over the Philippines
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Joseph Conrad publishes “Heart of Darkness”
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Rudyard Kipling writes “The White Man’s Burden”
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South African War
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The Boxer Rebellion
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Hobson publishes “Imperialism”
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Maji Maji Rebellion
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Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War
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A Republic replaces China’s Qing Dynasty
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Most of Africa falls under European Rule
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Panama Canal Opens
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Russian expansion reaches Afghanistan