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?
Was the Boxer Rebellion the beginning of communism in China? What caused the Warring States Period in China? Why did the Chinese Civil War happen? Why is the Taiping Rebellion responsible for the collapse of China? Why was the Second Sino-Japanese War a failure?
What the Opium Wars Wrought
How was Japan easily able to defeat China in the Sino-Japanese War? How did the Second Sino-Japanese War affect China? 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?
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, ...
as members of its Uighur minority have previously crossed the border to join Al-Qaeda and fight alongside them. The Taliban haspromisednot to intervene in China’s Uighur issue and, in return, China has offered to build Afghanistan’s infrastructure and bring it out of an era of ruin into ...
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...
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 ...