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    The First Opium War since 1839 until 1842 is otherwise called the Opium War and as the Anglo-Chinese War, this war was battled in the middle of Britain and China over their clashing perspectives on strategic relations, exchange, and the organization of equity for outside nationals. In the 17th and 18th hundreds of years, the interest for Chinese products especially silk, porcelain, and tea in the European business made an exchange unevenness on the grounds that the business sector for Western…

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    history over wars basically known as the first and the Second Punic War in around 200s BCE. The main reason was gaining lots of territories or empire with great battles among Rome and several others as its rival Carthage. Rome had acquired most of the western Mediterranean in the era of fifty years and at this moment had to alter or fine-tune its administration, foreign policy, finances, and alliance system to decree these territories. The Second Punic War also called Carthaginian War (218-201…

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    Enterprising imperial nations had been plundering China as early as the 16th century, desiring the silk, tea, and porcelain that China possessed. By the Age of Imperialism, China was too weak to repel the onslaught of European powers competing for her resources. Britain, France, Russia, and later Japan and other nations, vied with each other for control of China’s wealth. China had been so weakened by centuries of exploitation that European interlopers wrote their own rules and forced the…

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    down many Islamic institutions to fit existing religious beliefs. However, this changed in 1784 under the Naqshbandi Sufi purification efforts of Sheikh Mansur. Combining the ideas of implementing sharia law with the declaration of a gazavat, or holy war, Mansur routed out impious Chechen Sufi beliefs. Additionally, he directly connected Islamic revivalism with defiance towards the Russian Empire. After Russia’s discovery of Sheikh Mansur’s religious and nationalist sentiments, in 1785,…

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    Research Paper On Chechnya

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    secession. Why was Russia so adamant upon refusing Chechen independence? In this essay, I will try to identify the foremost reason for this intervention, primarily in regards to the First and Second Chechen War. Scholars have disputing…

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    The Florida Seminole War

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    simply forced the Natives to relocate to distant lands without any form of compensation. These disagreements would culminate in Florida in the 19th century with three Seminole wars which pitted the local native Seminoles versus the ever expanding United States government. Historian Joe Ketch studied the intricacies of the three wars and the events leading up to the conflicts in his book titled “The Florida Seminole…

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    Essay On Boxer Rebellion

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    The Boxer Uprising of 1898-1900 , is a peasant movement which was doomed to fail from its conception primarily due to its divided and leaderless structure, was a reaction to a series of factors, most of the factors were caused by western imperialsm and Japanese imperialism and the weak and again also caused by divided Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the…

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    good for crops (Bradford 22). As Carthage found more and more land, it found the perfect place to build a new city, Sicily. However, Greece also wanted Sicily. Both wanted the island, and a war…

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    Punic Wars Research Paper

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    2. Briefly discuss the Punic Wars. Why did they start and what was the ultimate impact all of this fighting had on Rome? The Romans had engaged in many wars because they did not want their neighboring countries to have more power than them or worried about those people becoming powerful. However, of all the wars that the Romans were involved in, the most memorable one is the Punic Wars. The First Punic War took place in (264-241 B.C.E), the cause of this particular war was because the Romans…

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    However, in 1835 the Seminoles rejected the terms of this treaty. As a consequence of this conflict between Indians and whites pertaining to the ownership of land in east Florida, the Second Seminole War began. During this war, several treaties had been made but the Seminole chiefs deemed them as unfair. Due to the war, Major Benjamin Putnam and his troops, who called themselves “Mosquito Roarers”, occupied Bulow Plantation. As they arrived on Bulows property, he fired a small canon at them due…

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