Europe. With their opium and ability to control the Suez canal. Opium war and such.
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Because the Ohio River flowed westward, it became a convenient means of westward movement by pioneers traveling from western Pennsylvania.
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The Aborigines found themselves in a situation were they were systematically assimilated into a new culture without being able to do anything. The children where taken away from their parents, and they were raised by people that were of British descent or were educated in British based institutions. That led to the children learning only what their British parents and institutions were teaching them, thus not being able to preserve anything from the Aboriginal culture.
Also, there were forced marriages between the British settlers and the Aboriginal women with the purpose of ethnically wiping out the Aborigines in few generations. That was one of the worst methods that has been used for destroying indigenous people.
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3. The influx of Christian missionaries
4. New technologies that included weapons
5. Cultural and religious exchanges between areas
Explanation:
As Japan interacted and experienced European culture for the first time, they were able to learn a lot from the new culture.
There was definitely an influx of missionaries from all over Europe who wanted to preach the Gospel and convert the local population.
Apart from this, the Japanese were able to learn about education and new technologies such as guns. The Japanese, before opening up believed they were very advanced, but after the Europeans, they understood their short-comings.
There were also plenty of cultural and religious exchanges taking place between them.
The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia.
