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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke to

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george brought to you by the face of imperialism Which

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plan to guess Probably looks like you just sucked on

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a lemon All right here's a question eighteen Sixty nine

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Construction of which important canal drastically changed the face of

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imperialism in africa and hear the answer time and a

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mock Now erica now sue as grand All right well

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this question seems like a history question It's really Just

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a geography question in disguise If we pull up a

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world map we can pinpoint a few of these canals

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So let's start with a the panama canal call is

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crazy but if we had to guess and location of

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the panama canal we probably pinpointed somewhere in panama So

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who were wild and crazy over here It's much next

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comes up the erie canal which eerie as it may

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be sorry couldn't resist is not in fact in africa

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it's actually in new york way we could eliminate option

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b on while we're on the topic of the eerie

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in the strange it would be pretty strange tohave the

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ever so chinese sounding grand canal of say zhu smack

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dab in africa which is why the ever so chinese

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sounding canal is right in the ever so chinese china

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That leaves us with c the suez Well the suez

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is in fact in africa and was important to imperialism

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after an open in eighteen sixty nine provided a way

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of travel from the mediterranean sea into the red sea

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allowing europeans that move around africa with relative ease and

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likely d souring that imperialist face just a little bit

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You know what they say when life gives you lemon

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build a canal and change the face of imperialism in 00:01:34.853 --> [endTime] africa or something like that

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