| A | B |
|---|
| Treaty of Nanking | signed at the end of the Opium War |
| Open Door Policy | allowed nations to trade freely with China |
| 1914 | the year the Panama Canal opened |
| 1898 | the year Hawaii became a part of the US |
| 1903 | the first airplane was launched by the Wright Brothers |
| David Livingstone | Scottish missionary who spent 30 years in Africa |
| Thomas Edison | developed the first practical lightbulb |
| Henry Stanley | American reporter who explored Africa |
| sepoys | indian soldiers in the British Army |
| Alexander Graham Bell | patented the telephone in1876 |
| Boers | dutch settlers in South Africa |
