• Steamboat
• Steamship
• Quinine

• More Durable than sails
• Could travel upstream

Used to treat Malaria

(Meant conquest of Africa was more possible)

Weapons used in Conquest

(Made it possible to overthrow China in Opium Wars and numerous African Nations)

• Musket
• Breech loading rifles
• Smokeless gunpowder
• repeating mechanisms
• Gatling Gun (first used in Civil War)

• Suez Canal
• Underwater Cable Network

• Built from 1859-1869
• Allowed more direct Water Transportation from Europe to Asia
• From Mediteranean Sea to Red Sea
• 106 Mi Long
• 1900- 3400+ ships used it

• 1900- 200,000 miles of underwater (submarine) cables linked the world together
• Carried telegraphs accross the world

• Steel could be made from pig iron in a fast efficient way
• Saved 70-80% of fuel

• Failure to keep pace with Western arms technology and the isolation of the Qing dynasty made it vulnerable to attacks from European weapons and exposed China to European expansion

• Europeans were careful not to give Africans higher level weaponry. This helped in expansion because the Africans only defense was a musket compared to a Maxim.

• Used in World War I and World War II
• Were used to basically taunt U.S. into joining first World War
• Posed a huge threat to Allied merchant ships

• Carbon Monoxide Gas
• Zyklon B
• Kurt Gerstein gave account of lethal gas being used at Belcec Extermination Camp in Poland

• Manhattan Project
• Used to combat Japanese in WWII (was thaught to be the only way to end the War without 1/2 a million more lives being lost)
• Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki