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By travelling through the Suez Canal, shipping no longer had to transverse the whole of the continent of Africa- shortening the journey to India and the Far East by several days.

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Q: Why In the late nineteenth century the British commonly referred to the Suez Canal in Egypt as the Lifeline of the Empire?
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