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The Suez Canal was constructed in the 1800's by a French company and then purchased by the British. The canal, which linked the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, cut the time it took to sail from this sea into Asia and the Pacific ( And vice- versa). However, the French people were angered at the British's heavy control of the new sea lane.

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