France obtained control over northern Vietnam following its victory over China in the Sino-French War (1884–85). French Indochina was formed on 17 October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam), and the Kingdom of Cambodia; Laos was added after the Franco-Siamese War in 1893.
Answer: Electricity became important during the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s. Electric lights allowed factories to stay open longer and produce more goods.
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Freedom of speech is after the Declaration of Independence(Amendment rights), so therefore the answer is A. It has to be natural rights
I would have to say C) Workers had easier jobs and shorter hours. I'm not 100% sure but I know it ain't A.
There were numerous reasons as to why so large, well-established empires like the Russian and the Ottoman Empires were not able to quickly adapt and modernize in the way that much smaller nations did.
For starters, these two empires had very large territories. The vast territories meant that the laws and the modernization can not be implemented very well in all parts of the empire. Also, big problem was that in the borders of these empires lived people from lot of different ethnic and religious groups, which was largely making them empires where the people were not united, had different points of view, and different goals.
Japan on the other hand, is much smaller. The population of this nation had the same ethnic, religious, and cultural background, thus the nation was united in all aspects. That led to easy transformation and modernization of the society without any particular problems.
