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Westernization was something that Peter the Great would have been on board with, especially to help this stuck-in-feudalism nation modernize.
What is Russia?
The Russians were a part of this WWI alliance.
What is the Triple Entente, or Allied Powers.
This was won by one George, and lost by another.
What is the American Revolution
"They armed us and want us to be their soldiers, but they run our nation and export our cotton, tea, spice...let's overthrow them Brits!"
-Maybe someone in history
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
What are child laborers or child labor?
Unable to gain large scale access to trade with China, Britain began to import this along coastal areas in an effort to undermine Chinese authority.
What is opium?
The Tokugawa Shogunate banned most trade and all foreign missionaries in this island nation.
What is Japan?
3rd Estate. Bastille Prison. Reign of Terror.
What is the French Revolution?
"You aren't going to come in here, poison our people with that substance and think you can trade freely! You'll have to beat us in a war!"
-Maybe someone in history
What are the Opium Wars?
The discovery of this fuel beneath the surface of England spurred many miners (and minors) work away digging it up.
What was coal?
The British Raj set in after crushing this Indian rebellion.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny?
After being isolated and falling behind, this period of Japanese history is credited with restoring stable government and rapid industrialization in an attempt to modernize the country.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
French Colony. Toussaint L'Overture. Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
"This is crazy! First you guillotine the King, now even Robespierre is getting chopped. This has gone on too far, everyone is living in fear during this era of unique French history."
-Likely some French person in history, speaking in English.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Cotton was a major import to these type of factories, which were some of the first in the Industrial Revolution.
What are textile factories?
Akbar the Great helped expand the territorial boundaries of India during the rule of this empire.
What or Who were the Mughal Empire?
Potatoes shipped to British troops in India and throughout Asia could have been used to prevent this mass starvation.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
"I am a Yugoslav nationalist and I believe in the unification of all Slavs in whatever form of State and that it be free of Austria. And that's why I capped that dude in that back of the convertible in Sarajevo."
-Gavrilo Princip, mostly.
What is World War I?
Adam Smith would agree with factory investors, who thought the government should stay out of economics and instead believed in this free market system.
What is capitalism?
Karl Marx may have been born in Germany, but China is the largest country that still practices his economic ideas (in some loose way).
What is communism?
While rubber was eventually found in southeast Asia, Belgium committed mass atrocities against people in this region of Africa if they failed to produce their quota of rubber sap.
What is the Congo?
Locke. Hobbes. Social Contract. Rousseau.
What is the Enlightenment?
-Galileo Galilei, maybe.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The first railroad connected the industrial town of Manchester with this port city, which also is the home of the Beatles.
What is Liverpool?