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- - - - harnessed electricity
      - EdiSwan
    - - land lines
      - cable
      - telegraph was one way, phone is 2 way
    - - officially kicked off 2nd indistrial revolution
      - most important invention in modern history
      - Nikola Tesla
- - - - first mass political party and nationalist movement in British controlled Asia
      - British took direct control over India after Indian Sepoy army rebellion failed against British East India Company
- - - - broke out over whether or not Britain could sell Opium to China
      - sold to Britain from India
      - Opium is addictive after one does, convulsions can break your back if you try to quit
      - British threw a party for Chinese officials and laced the food served to the Chinese with Opium
    - - preserve Japan by western civilization
      - Japan had the best battleships
      - Japan won the war
      - put Japan on the world stage
      - liberated China from Russian Sphere
    - - Zulus annihilated British contingent of 1,800 men
      - Britain invaded Zulu kingdom to acquire land with diamonds
      - Battle of Islandwana
      - King Menelik
        
        Emperor of Ethiopia
        
        recognized Ethiopia needed a modern army so he modernized it
        
        credited with reason Ethiopia did not lose the Battle of Adwa
    - - Russia sides with Greeks over Ottomans
      - challenges power of big 5
      - France and Britain join Russia and the Greeks
      - Romantic poets love war
      - Greeks win war
    - - signified downfall of Europe
      - Russia acts on its own to fight Britain and Europe
      - Metternich leaving ended concert of Europe
      - * SIDE NOTE (Putin invaded Crimea in 2014)
      - Britain and France back Ottomans
      - Russia sues for peace and loses some terriory but not a lot
  - - - Invasion of Mexico was a failure
      - Crimean War was sort of a win
      - Lost badly to Prussia in 1870