The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in this country due to its strong central bank and large working class.
This breakthrough technology, primarily associated with James Watt, was a critical component in the Industrial Revolution.
This concept, based on the ideas of evolution and natural selection applied to humans and civilization, was often used by imperialists to justify colonization.
This German author and philosopher founded a branch of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
This country in Oceania, originally a British colony, intentionally restricted non-white immigration from its origins at Federation in 1901.
In his Wealth of Nations, this man argued that division of labor was a key to increased productivity, laying the foundations of the factory system of production.
This new form of overland transportation, which expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, led to cheaper shipping and therefore greatly expanded markets.
The partition of Africa took place at this 1884 meeting, organized by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
During this phase of the French Revolution, an estimated forty thousand people were killed in the name of protecting France from enemies of the Revolution.
In the United States, increasingly violent agitation surrounding the influx of East Asian immigrants in the nineteenth century culminated in this 1882 law which denied Chinese laborers entrance to the country.
This revolution in Japan overthrew the Tokugawa and put the country on a path of economic reform and industrialization.
This new form of communication permitted powers to quickly correspond with colonized regions and allies.
The construction of this passage between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was one of the primary reasons for imperial interest in Egypt.
This man led independence movements in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America.
Some immigrants during the 19th century made this type of arrangement, which exchanged a fixed period of labor for food, transportation, clothing, and lodging during that time period.
This compound, which proved effective in controlling attacks of malaria, allowed Europeans to travel further in to tropical regions in Africa.
The Treaty of Nanjing concluded this war, which was fought between China and Britain over access to China’s markets.
This country was founded after the only successful slave revolt in history.
This increase in food production caused by new farming techniques led to increasing populations worldwide.
This restructuring of the Ottoman Empire was designed to make the empire more efficient and introduced a new commercial code modeled on European rather than Islamic principles.
This empire, founded by Shaka through unification of smaller chiefdoms, was one of the most successful new states in Africa in the 19th century.
Many Indians, including Mohandas Gandhi, spent time as temporary migrant laborers in this British territorial holding in Africa.