They have a road from middle east to africa and they would use Merchant ship routes.
During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother. Hong Xiuquan wanted to instill social reforms such as collective property, equality for women and replacing Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist and Chinese folk religion with Christianity.
The poll tax was used in the South during and after Reconstruction as a means of circumventing the 14th Amendment and denying civil rights to blacks.
4. Jawaharlal Nehru is elected prime minister
1. A conflict breaks out at the Sikh Golden Temple
3. India gain independence
2. Indira Gandhi is assassinated
