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geopolitics
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a foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other land
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Crimean War
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each generation of Russia czars launched a war on the Ottomans to try to gain land on the Black Sea. The purpose was to give Russia a warm-weather port. In 1853 war broke out between the Russians and the Ottomans. The war was called the Crimean War
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Suez Canal
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a human-made waterway which was opened in 1869 connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
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