opium wars

Opium is a drug that grows from a poppy flower that is very addicted and it relaxes you which makes people want more and more. There was a big war with British and China for opium in the 19th century. Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods, and used to produce heroin. In the 15th century, when opium was first introduced to China, it was used as medicine to treat diseases such as dysentery, cholera, as well as diarrhea. The Opium War was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered. By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth century in size of criminality. Growing opium in India, the East India Company shipped tons of opium into Canton which it traded for Chinese manufactured goods and for tea. Because of the trades of opium in china, china was becoming addicted to opium and was turning china into a worst economy. War broke out when Chinese junks attempted to turn back English merchant vessels in November of 1839. The Chinese, with old-style weapons and artillery, were no match for the British gunships, which ranged up and down the coast shooting at forts and fighting on land. The Chinese were equally unprepared for the technological superiority of the British land armies, and suffered continual defeats. Finally, in 1842, the Chinese were forced to agree to an ignomious peace under the Treaty of Nanking.

Mountain of the moon

The movie we watched in class was the mountain of the moon because we are studying imperialism. This movie was talking about the way the two famous europeans Richard Burton and John Speke discovered lake victoria which is the source of the nile river. It talked how these two people struggled for months and months to just find the source of the Nile river. Most people died in this adventure and some survived. They both had to take two trips to Africa because they weren't prepared the first time because they didn't have the materials and resources to eat or didn't even have any weapons to protect themselves because they came across other territories and tribes. There were diseases such as malaria. John Speke had became death in his second trip because he forgot to cover himself in his insect tent at night and it got in his ear. John Speke was the one to discover the source of the nile river and named it lake victoria after the queen of the united kingdom Queen Victoria. The europeans had guns and updated resources and the africans had spears so they used that against them and took over Africa.

Meiji Restoration of Japan

In the year of 1853, Commandore Matthew Perry showed up in Japan with 4 warships under his command in Tokyo with a request from the United States government to open its ports to trading and to establish diplomatic relations between the two nations. The Japanese were aware of western imperialist aggression in other parts of Asia and the presence of warships suggested that this request could be backed up with force. This made the Japanese sign the treaty of kanagawa with the United States. The Japanese were astounished of Matthew Perry's vessels. The Japanese never saw this type of creation and technology before. They called those Black ships because of the black smoke the ships threw out. The abolition of feudalism made possible tremendous social and political changes. Millions of people were suddenly free to choose their occupation and move about without restrictions. By providing a new environment of political and financial security, the government made possible investment in new industries and technologies. This made Japan's government to start building railways and shipping lines and much more. Japan started getting morwe industrialized with factories and started trading with other countries. Japan is an archipelago because an archipelago is a cluster of islands frequently formed by volcanic activity.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is abolition of private property, meaning that resources and production are owned in common by the people. Communism was made by Karl Marx because he wanted everyone to be payed the same amount. Karl Marx didn't like the ideas of capitalism because he thought that capitalism contained the seeds to its own destruction.He said that communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism. A way for Karl Marx ideas to be passed on around the world to start this type of revolution was that he started writing books about his ideas, started communist groups and went to every socialist meeting he heard about to argue his point for communism. Marx called the trade owners or known as the "Boss" as "BOURGEOISIE" a french word meaning the social class and he called the "Workers" as "PROLETARIAT" a french word meaning the wage labourers.

Karl Marx and the Indusrial Revolution!!!!

Karl marx was a german and his ideas was known as communism. He was born a Jew, but his father converted the family to Christianity in order to get a job. He did not believe in god and thought workers were controlled by religion. The ideas of Karl Marx were not used in the communist countries. Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial. Workers were often forced to work on huge collective farms and factory workers often had to fulfill quotas. In most Communist nations, the press was censored. They were not allowed to print news stories that criticized the government. People who spoke out against the Soviet government were treated harshly. Karl marx was known as the founder of Communism.
In the other hand Karl marx did not like the industrial revolution because he thought that the industrial revolution was to make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This influenced him to make the religion known as "Communism". He wanted workers to start a revolution against their owners since there were more workers then owners. He wanted everyone to get payed the same and with no social classes that will tell people what class you are in and whatnot.

Nationalism and the creation of italy

Nationalism is the belief that someone should not show their loyalty to a king or empire but to your own nation that has same common culture and common history as well. I am nationalistic by being a good citizen in society and by respecting the laws of this country and celebrating all of this country's holiday such as fourth of July , presidents day and etc. I usually tell may dad to take me to parades to celebrate America and i usually tell him that when ever we see in the news that there are people who needs clothes and food, we will go to the store buy some and give it to those people or give it to charity. Nationalism to me means that you need to serve your country and respect it and do no harm and take care of it and its people. Nationalism includes alot of things such as nationality, language, culture, history, religion, and territory.
Nationalism changed Italy alot because it used to be ruled by kings but when nationalism came, these territories started seperating and started to form into nation. Italy before used to be seperate empires and had kings. There was alot of differences in these empires that nationalism had broken these empires and created seperate nations. Italy was one in particular that was formed as a nation. The person who started uniting all of italy was Camillo di Covour. Covour found help from Napolean 111 and an ally who were the french. But one of the bad parts about this unification was that there were alot of problems such as language, religion and much more

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolution

Simon bolivar is known as the liberator because he has organized a military force to fight against the spanish rule on the northern part of south america. His main concern was on venezuela, ecuador, peru, colombia, bolivia for their independence. The reason why Simon Bolivar got a country after him was because one day in 1823, bolivar and sucre planned an attack to the spanish army. A year later on Auguste 6 1824, they both defeated the spanish army in the battle of Junin. On August 6, 1825, Sucre called the Congress of Upper Peru which created the Republic of Bolivia in honor of Bolívar. Simon bolivar is a very big hero for the south american countries becuase he has gave them their independence and created the LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

evolution vs. creation

The person who made the theory about evolution was a man named Darwin. The theory is said that all life comes from a common ancestor. This means that creatures evolve naturally over time. Darwin also brought something new to an old philosophy that ancient greeks used and it was a plausible mechanism called natural selection. Natural selection is the preservation of a fuctional advantage that enables a bspecies to compete better in the wild.
Creation is said that humans, life, earth, and universe were created by a dietry or dieties. The term creationism is generally used to describe the belief of creation occured literally as decribed in the book of genesis.