The slave system in Haiti depended on backbreaking labor in fields, often without clear time limits, in order to produce all sorts of goods for European markets, including especially this sweetener, which has the molecular formula of C₆H₁₂O₆.
What is sugar?
One product of the Great Revolt was a transfer of power between this authority, which ruled India from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century, and the British government.
What is the British East India Company?
This northeastern African country is one of only two within the continent never to have been permanently colonized.
What is Ethiopia?
Coinciding with a nasty fight for authority between Ci Xi and Guangxu, driving foreigners out of China became a key objective of this late 19th century movement that all but ended any hope of Chinese strength on an international scale.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This revolutionary figure, who received an education in Europe, moved back to Latin America in order to help free natives from the chains of Western oppression.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
Toussaint Louverture's 1801 constitution established Saint-Domingue as the first place in the modern world to abolish slavery, but it didn't allow for this, which occurred 25 years earlier in a country to the north.
What is independence?
Concerned with the growing power of the Japanese, who had inched closer to the northeastern border of India during second world war, this initiative by Churchill in 1942 intended to curry the favor of Indians by securing their military support of the British.
What is the Cripps Mission?
Facilitated by Otto von Bismarck, this watershed event in foreign relations, which took place in 1884-1885, commenced the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The modernization of Japan is, to a very large extent, rooted in the arrival of the "black ships" commandeered by this individual in 1853.
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Who is Matthew C. Perry?
In a bold move that sent shock waves through the country at the time, the 3rd estate locked itself in this space until it was able to compose a new constitution in defiance of the perceived oppression at the hands of the nobility and clergy in late 18th century France.
What is a tennis court (at Versailles)?
This revolutionary figure, who at different points fought against and alongside Toussaint Louverture, became the first ruler of an independent Haiti?
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
This bustling port city, located in northeastern India, played a prominent role in the discussions leading up to Partition.
What is Calcutta?
There is a reason this country changed its name to Zimbabwe in the 1980s in a direct attempt to distance itself from its colonial past, for this former name was rooted in the work of an eventual CEO of the diamond company De Beers, Cecil Rhodes.
What is (Southern) Rhodesia?
In the mid-19th century, the Chinese government restricted foreign access exclusively to this major port city, which is known by what name today?
What is Guangzhou?
(Or then: Canton)
Two years after the beheading of King Louis XVI and a third constitution in five years, this political entity, with its bicameral legislature and ability to bend the rules, gained power in France from 1795-1799, eventually giving way to Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the Directory?
In an example of tragic irony, Haiti's scorched earth policy, designed to eradicate the French presence and influence, left Haiti without any of this, which hamstrung its attempt to rebuild the economy.
What is industry (or infrastructure)?
This concept, sometimes referred to as "truth force," became a rallying cry led by Gandhi and was supported by millions of Indians in the quest for freedom from Britain during the early 20th century.
What is Satyagraha?
The colonization methods in this country — the largest by land mass in all of Africa — paved the way for what eventually culminated in a long and bloody fight for freedom among its citizens, and against the French, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
What is Algeria?
This treaty concluded the Second Opium War.
What is the Treaty of Tientsin?
This leader of the Committee of Public Safety, which fought for economic stability and a national army in France, eventually met a gruesome yet quick end the by killing method of the day, the guillotine.
Who is Max Robespierre?
Though this individual, a former runaway who was enslaved in Africa, inspired slaves across Saint-Domingue by showing that the French could not only be resisted but overthrown in his successful poisoning of plantation owners.
Who is François Makandal?
The political boundaries separating India from Pakistan and Bangladesh, which are named after the British official who oversaw the process, represent this "prize."
What is the Radcliffe Award?
Which country's independence — very late within the timeline of decolonization in Africa — goes back to the outcome of WWI but, ultimately, depended on the policies of a country located directly to its southeast, which, at the time, was embroiled in an Apartheid conflict.
What is Namibia?
The Treaty of Portsmouth, which commemorated Japan's historic victory over Russia in the early years of the 20th century, granted the winner land rights to this country.
What is Korea?
At the very top of the social ladder in late 18th century Latin America was this group, which referred to Spanish-born colonizers living in the Americas.
Who are the Peninsulares?