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The Russian Revolution

2009-01-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

The Russians had a revolution because they were all unhappy. The winter of 1917 was a very cold winter. It was horrible for the Russian people and they were all very hungry but the czar wouldn't do anything about this. Instead he would waste all of his money on sending worthless troops out to fight World War I, while they would just get killed anyway. The Russian people were furious. They thought that they needed a change in their government and all of these events triggered it. The people during that time were all hungry and desperate and they just believed it and voted to keep their country a Communist nation. The leader of the Revolution was Lenin. He was in the Bolshevik group as well as Joseph Stalin. The quote "Peace, land and bread"means that the Russians wanted Peace in the country no wars, land for them to have farms and bread for them to feed their children. They wanted these aspects to have a better Russia and communism promised them that.

World War I

2009-01-07T10:03:00.000-08:00

During the late 1800's throughout the early 1900's there were still empires that were formed. Many of the people that were being taken over were very unhappy with that and wanted there own country. The people thought that in one empire they spoke over three different languages, then why would they even be a united country. One major reason why World War I happened was because of Nationalism. Countries spent millions of dollars to help prepare their military. They were trying to prepare themselves to have a very powerfully military. There was one problem about all of this and that was that they didn't have anywhere to use it. This made them start tension and conflict within each other. Militarism was a really important factor in starting the war. What triggered the war though was when the archduke of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian, Austria declared war on Serbia which then cause Russia to join the war on Serbia's side. This was the collapse of the alliance system. This war caused the people of all the nations they belonged to felt pride in the fact that their country was the dominate one.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

2008-12-16T10:11:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx really didn't agree with the Industrial Revolution. He disliked the fact that the factory owners controlled the workers, but the workers were the ones that were doing all of the work. He was the one that invented the idea of communism, he wanted the government to be used by all of the "common" people. The industrial revolution inspired Karl Marx to come up with communism was because he really disliked the fact that all of the people that were doing the actual work, were getting treated horribly and they were doing all of the work and had no power.

The Opium Wars

2008-12-16T10:05:00.000-08:00

During the Opium war, the Chinese weren't very open to trade with other Nations. The British wanted the tea from the Chinese, and the Chinese wouldn't want to trade. So, the English made the Chinese addicted to Opium. Soon enough the Chinese people started becoming very sick, weak and very lazy from the drug that they were addicted to. The Chinese government was very unhappy, which resulted for the government requested Britain to stop giving the Chinese Opium. The British refused because they wanted their tea and money, because during that time tea was very rare. That's when they declared war. It is called the Opium war is because the Chinese were trying to get Opium out of their country, but the British kept bringing Opium in China. As a result the British easily won the Chinese because the British had advanced weapons and a bigger and stronger military. This is one of Chinese most humiliating loss in history, because they got beaten so badly. In Conclusion, the Chinese decided to allow trade to catch up on the modern technology.

Meji Restoration of Japan

2008-12-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Mathew Perry was taking over Japan due to his Superior military strengths. Perry arrived at the coast of Tokyo, 26 miles off. He arrived at the port with his sails down to intentionally intimidate the Japanese with his advanced technology. Thanks to his superior military forces that could easily defeat the Japanese, they had no choice but to give in to him.This lead to the Japanese economy dropping. It dropped because of European and American production and the Japanese having no tariff on the supplies. So in order to become a modern nation, the emperor used a mandatory state fund of education.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of The Moon"

2008-12-03T09:52:00.000-08:00

The movie was about the European exploration into Africa to search for the source of the Nile river. There were two explorers, Richard Burton and John Speke. Some of the hardships they faced were starvation, and intense heat. They also faced the long walks on the everlasting desert. They also faced wild animals and diseases they didn't know of. They found a lake and named it Queen Victoria because that was the name of their queen at the time. Even though Africans lived around the lake and knew well of it, the Europeans got to name it because of their technical advancements and their greater intelligence over the Africans. Europeans were much more advanced in technology, while Africans still used stones and spears, they had guns and many more advanced items. Which lead them to think that Africans were an inferior race. The fact that Europeans would then develope machine guns and much more advanced technology while Africa stayed then same. This lead the Europeans to later conquer many parts of Africa.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2008-11-03T09:51:00.000-08:00

Karl Mark did not like the industrial revolution. He felt that the treatment the workers received were harsh and cruel. Workers often worked long hours for little pay, under terrible conditions. This lead to Karl Marx inventing Communism. Communism is a concept in which all workers share the same wealth and are sometimes rewarded for hard work. Nobody had any better of a chance than everybody else and things are always fair and equal.

Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

2008-10-16T09:58:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is the love that someone has for his or her country/nation.

The Reign of Terror

2008-09-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

The reign of terror was a period of violence that occur ed fifteen months after the onset of the french revolution. It was indicated by rival political factions, the Girodins and the Jacobins. This was a period when the were mass executions of those who are "against the revolution". Estimates of how many people were killed vary from sixteen thousand to forty thousand people. The guillotine became a symbol of the string of executions, because it was the most common way of performing them. Many important people like Antoine Laoisier, considered the father of chemistry, lost thier lives at this time period.

John Locke and "The Enlightment"

2008-09-18T09:57:00.000-07:00

The rights that John Locke were talking about are the rights to live life to the fullest and that all men are equal and have the right to persuit happieness. According to the decloration of Independance the goverment cannot be in the form of a tyranny, but it will be in the power of the people and the citizens, to be able to chose the right leader, and a leader without complete control that can be overcome by other forms of the government. Also, according to the government and laws all citizens have equals rights and no man has a better chance of success in the states than any other. This is how John Locke had a huge impact on modern day democracy.

Geocentric and Heliocentric Theories

2008-09-12T09:57:00.000-07:00

The Heliocentric theory, called Heliocentrism, is the theory that the sun is the center of the solar system. This theory came out of the scientific revolution. Galileo Galelie was born on 1564. He was an astronomer that believed in the Heliocentric theory. The catholic church sentenced Galileo to trail because he taught his beliefs. He defended his beliefs in court and was sentenced to house arrest. The Geocentric theory is the theory that the Earth is the center of the universe.

Scientific Method

2008-09-11T09:54:00.000-07:00

The scientific method is a proses of steps used to find and/or observe any experiment. It is said to be the best method that can be used to solve scientific problem, mostly done in 5 steps. The first step is the observation of the current experiment. The next step is the hypothesis, which is a description on what you already observed. After that you will make a prediction or predictions, in which you will take an educated guess on how the conclusion of the experiment will turn out. After you make those predictions you will test them, by performing more observations or experiments. You have to repeat the last two steps until your experiment is perfect and you get the proper results. I think you can use the scientific method to solve any experiment from a 1st grade level to an experiment performed by professional scientists.

Evolution vs. Creation

2008-09-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

Evolution is the belief that all living things adapted from similar forms to more advanced forms in order to survive and overcome obstacles in their surroundings. Creation is the belief that all living things were created by a deity in the religious beliefs of Christianity Judaism or Islam. i believe in both in a sort. i believe that a god created simple creature and then they slowly evolved into the living things that we see on the earth today.

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2008-09-04T10:10:00.001-07:00

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