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1
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philippines

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group of pacific islands that were taken by the us in1898 after spanish american war

2
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hawaii and guam

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islands in the pacific that the us took control over the late 1890’s

3
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caribean

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island area near florida where us took control of cuba and puerto rico after spanish american war

4
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opium war

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conflict between china and britain over britain pushing drugs despite china’s armed resistance

5
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qing dynasty

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the last ruling family of china but were not chinese but manchurian

6
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chinese inventions

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gun power, paper, kite, silk process, wheel barrow, printing, compass, porecelain

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boxer rebellion

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1990, chinese rebelled against qing dynasty, chinsese christians, and foreigners.
result-rebellion put down by foreign troops, japan, russia, britain, america, french

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edo

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old name for tokyo

9
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kyoto

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capitol of japan before tokyo

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qing

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also known as ching dynasty. The last dynasty of china and were manchurian, not chinese

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china and west

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china did not want to fade w/ foreign countries because not interested in western items

12
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the tea-opium connection

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british were addicted to chinese so they forced opium into china so as to establish trade in 1830s

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guangzhou

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large port city of southern china

14
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cantonese and mandarin

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c. is the language of southern china and m. is norther and official language. H.K. speaks cantonese.