India's modern history begins in the 14th century when European nations began to flex their imperialistic muscles in the Middle East and Asia. ... With the approval of local Indian rulers, the East India Company established trading posts in Madras, Bombay and Calcutta. ... The French arrived in the middle of the 17th century, signalling the beginning of militarization. ... For this reason the British East India Company took control of the country in around 1818, defeating the ruling ancient Mogul empire. ... However, the rebellion failed, and as a result both the East India Company and ...

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Following the colonization's of India and Africa, Britain and other major would powers enjoyed economic income and new appeal to middle class people about the adventures that their country went through to colonized other lands. ... Britain looked into the East India Company because it was starting to control the Mughals. Soon my 1757 the East India Company was the leading power in India and through Viceroys Britain was controlling India. ... Britain started from north and south, while France started from east and west. ... After India being conquered by Britain and Africa by Europe, man...

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Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramatic escape and eventually traveled along the Portuguese East African boundaries back to the fighting front in Natal. ... As secretary of state for air and colonies, he had a major role in setting the political boundaries for Arab states in the Middle East, while supporting a Jewish national h...

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Iran thought that the United States was planning yet again another coup to place the Shah back in power in order to access more oil, since this is what occurred in the 1950s.6 Stephen Kinzer explains in his book how the U.S. handles business in the Middle East, especially secret operations. ... The Middle East has always had struggles for power and its foreign policy with the United States was only further damaged with the coup d'état. Tradition, history, and religion shape political life in the Middle East that many outsiders would not comprehend.7 Kinzer suggests that terror ...

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He was most effective in creating interest by awakening Victorian morality concerning the still active slave trade occurring in east Africa. ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of George Goldie producing The Royal Niger Company. ... France was moving east from Senegal. ... Salisbury spent much of his time hyping this idea and in the process found McKinnon and his British East Africa Company. The British Eas...

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In the end of 1930s, the world's two powers, Axis, headed by Japan, German, and Italy and Allies, headed by the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, fought in all over the world until the middle of 1940s. ... Hong Kong was a part of the British Empire and the only Far East colony and naval base they had. ... However, Japan actually failed to build Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and it prompts the question. The occupation of Hong Kong represents the whole story of failure of building Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. First of all, Japan forced their power to a...

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The Boxer Rebellion led to a mass military effort to secure trade of opium in the Far East. ... He strengthened the armies that the East India Company had raised. ... In 1813, the monopoly of the English East India Company was broken and all British citizens were allowed to trade with India. ... This act transferred authority for India from the East India Company to Queen Victoria. ... A giant wool sac sits in the middle of the House of Lords, representing the wealth that was built on the wool trade. ...

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What were the varying motivations of European countries in regards to their expansion into the New World?  Please discuss at least 3 countries and at least 3 of their motivations in your own words. One of the principal reasons for exploration was the urge to find new routes to East Asia. In 1400s, ...

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First the author explains that the French politicians were impressed by the idea of having some part of east in short-term (some land from a very developed agricultural society-Turkey-), the thought of capturing the Ottoman Empire's lands that include the middle-east which the French politicians can't wait to get a part from. ... As time passes the British War Council decided to send the famous 29th Division to the East from Europe and General Sir Ian Hamilton is appointed as commander-in-chief for the operation. ...

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The remaining ANZACs were evacuated and returned to the Middle East and the Western Front where they were involved in other battles. ... It also recognises the sacrifices made in other conflicts including WW2, Korea, South East Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Balkans. ...

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"(1539) Orwell feels caught in the middle of this cultural struggle. ... Being a minority these among natives, Orwell comes to realize that, "[his] whole life, [and] every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at...

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It arose from the work of the British East India Company with only occasional assistance from the British Government. ... The resentment that the Indians felt towards the British was one of the factors that led to the growth of a nationalist movement primarily within the British educated middle class. ...

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When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... The East India Company was originally conceived in September 1599, when a group of London merchants resolved to raise 30,000 for sending ships to the East to collect silks, spices and jewels "upon a purely merchantile bottom." ... By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, l...

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The city states that were characteristic of ancient Greece, the feudal principalities that defined Europe in the Middle Ages, and the empires that have existed throughout recorded history (both Eastern and Western) have largely been replaced by the nation-states as the dominant actors within the international arena. ... The Medieval Background (Middle Ages: An Age of Faith 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D) The Medieval Synthesis refers to the relationship between the 1. ... In First World War the Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and czarist were eliminated and Japan was confined to Far East. ...

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The "Kingdom of Great Britain" is a proper name for the new entity forged by Scotland, Wales, and England through the Act of Union: we are almost a century away from the establishment of the United Kingdom, and the British society is far from united at this stage. The Scots are very detached to the ...

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Issues like how the Arabs revolted during World War II forced Britain to take the easy way out as they "judged the support of the Arab population in the Middle East as more important than the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and shifted to a pro-Arab stance" (British Empire, Wikipedia). ...

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Mahatma Gandhi made many successful changes to India by 1939, due to his method of Satyagraha, a form of non-violence. He used this method on a local scale with campaigns in Champeran, Kaira and Ahmedabad, but also on a larger, national scale with campaigns against the Rowlatt laws, non co-operation...

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Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ...

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The slow uptake of technical innovation was key in the British decline, for instance the Gilchrist-Thomas process of removing brittle phosphorous from pig iron opened the way to the use of phosphorous -rich ores, in plentiful supply in North East England, thus providing the cheapest iron ore in the world for the production of steel. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

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In 1803, the Mughal kingdom down-fell. This conclusion happened from many days before due to the inner weakness of the Indian- subcontinent. The Mughal rule, in one word, had been easily turned in the hand of British Imperialism very easily, the power was given to the british , even before they realized their faults. Even if they saw the effects or predict the future they didn't give any kind of heed to it, due to their carelessness. The large and abundant riches wealth of Indian sub continent have been famous and its stories of abundant wealth have been rumoring and spread around t...

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