This caused grave hardships to merchants and a sharp rise in prices followed, so Parliament declared that monopolies without its consent were illegal. However, King Charles I was dissatisfied and dissolved Parliament in 1629. For the next 11 years, he ruled the country without a parliament. ...
What caused the Second Opium War? What caused the First Opium War? What are the Opium Wars? What were the Opium Wars about? What was an immediate result of the First Opium War? What was a result of the Second Opium War? The Opium War of 1839-1842 resulted in what?
What the Opium Wars Wrought
What was the immediate cause of WW1? What caused the War of the First Coalition? What started the Napoloeonic Wars? What were the primary causes of WWI? What caused World War l and World War ll? What caused the war on terror?
What year did Japan join the Axis Powers? What date did the Chinese Civil War end? What caused the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95? Why was the Sino-Japanese War important? Was the Sino-Japanese War part of WWII? Why was the Second Sino-Japanese War a failure?
What were the Barbary Wars? The Barbary States: Europeans referred to three quasi-independent states and the sultanate of Morocco as the Barbary States due to the Berbers living in the area. While Morocco was independent, it did not participate in piracy between the 16th and 18th centuries, ...
What we’ve just witnessed in Afghanistan is a historical repeat of the ‘Saigon moment’. But the final hours of the US occupation have been accompanied by a cacophony of neocons decrying the decision to end the war.
The Brixton Riots of 1987 caused panic at the time. Was Britain’s traditional niceness about to be lost? Were we seeing the start of a race war? I said then it was a “reformist riot”, a protest by people who wanted a better spot in the existing system. My comments have stood ...
I am not suggesting that Trump’s election caused Fowler, Pao, or any other woman to come forward, they did so out of their own courage and outrage. But I am suggesting that Trump’s election was the turning point on this issue from which there is no going back. It took Nixon to ...
Over just a few years, the Great Leap Forward also caused massive environmental damage in China. The backyard steel production plan resulted in entire forests being chopped down and burned to fuel the smelters, which left the land open to erosion. Dense cropping and deep plowing stripped the fa...