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Revision note: Revolutions, Industrialisation and Colonialism (18th–19th century)

  • American Rev: 1776 Declaration; 1787 Constitution; "no taxation without representation"
  • French Rev: 1789 Bastille; Rights of Man; Liberty–Equality–Fraternity; Napoleon 1799/1804
  • Industrial Rev: Britain c. 1760; Watt, Arkwright, Hargreaves; Adam Smith 1776; Marx 1848
  • Italy and Germany unified by 1871 (Garibaldi/Cavour; Bismarck)
  • Scramble for Africa – Berlin Conference 1884–85; Opium Wars – Treaty of Nanking 1842
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