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Nguyen Khuyen
________ (1835- 1909) was a Vietnamese writer who lived from 1835 to 1909.
Colonial conquest
________ occurred later, in the second half of the nineteenth century, and more suddenly and intentionally than in India or Indonesia, for much of Africa, mainland Southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands.
African
Steam- powered ships traveling via the new Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, enabling Europeans to reach remote Asian, ________, and Pacific ports more swiftly and consistently, as well as penetrate inner rivers.
eighteenth century
During the ________, Europeans and Americans were driven to the Pacific Oceania region by exploration and scientific curiosity, missionary zeal for conversion, and commercial interests in sperm whale oil, coconut oil, guano, mineral nitrates and phosphates, sandalwood, and other goods.
Italy and Germany
The unification of ________ in 1871 intensified Europe's already aggressive foreign relations, and much of this competition spilled over into the fight for colonies and economic concessions in Asia, Africa, and Pacific Oceania.
North America
It had 3.7 billion pounds sterling invested overseas in 1914, about evenly split between Europe, ________, and Australia on the one side, and Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the other.
Mass nationalism
made imperialism so popular in Europe, particularly in the final quarter of the nineteenth century
Suez Canal
enabled Europeans to reach remote Asian, African, and Pacific ports more swiftly and consistently, as well as penetrate inner rivers
Scramble for Africa
pitched a half-dozen European countries against one another as they partitioned the whole continent in only twenty-five years
