Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium war is also known as the angle Chinese war. The Opium War began in China, the British wanted China's tea but they didn't want to trade with the British.It was a war that took place because of a drug. The Chinese found that drug very addictive and they wanted it but they new that the others would not give it up.Since the British were the ones trading it with the China and for them to get Opium they had to trade tea.Then the government didn't like the idea of trading tea with the British for tea so the government decided that whoever trades with the British for the drug would be killed.So then the British new that china was the only ones that had the tea. so they threw the port to get to the tea. so then the British used war to get the drug. They used the war because they had good equipment and technology to over run the Chinese and because of that they won. so then the British decided to make the Chinese sign a treaty called the "Treaty of Nanjing" but the Chinese did not want to sign it so they decided to go to war again and like before the British won again.Which made the British have more power.

film lesson: mountains of the moon

In the movie " Mountain of The Moon" the hardship that the mans had. It is about two English explorers traveled down the middle of Africa where no white men have traveled before.Searching on their expedition the source of the Nile river. On there search they also took along some African men to help them on their expedition and on that some African Americans starting dieing because of the malaria some of them caught on their traveling.Then later on in the movie one of them killed him self because of how he and his partner disagreed on many things.They have been through a lot during those seven months like they seen the king and also had been through night robberes like in the nights they have been robbed so then like some of the African Americans could not take it anymore they just decided to leave. Also others did from starvation or from the water infection there was in the water. They named the source of the of the Nile river lake Victoria because they named it after there queen on a African territory. The primary technological advantage that Europeans had over African people because Europe conquered the Africans.The Europeans were able to conquer the African Americans because of the guns and like they had never seen guns it was easy for the Europeans to conquer them

Imperalisim project

The global project was for us to learn about imperialism the world and how each countries try to take other colonies to have
this projects was for us to see how different countries took over other countries so they have more land and countries how Europe.
We had to countries in the map and label them with the goods they had in their country. We had to labeled the European countries and the countries they have colonized in. because they wanted more resources for their factories that this is the reason why Europeans started exploring and colonizing in different countries around the world.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a communist. Communism is a political theory made up from Karl Marx, making class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Marx is a German Philosopher, political econimist,historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and he has been credited as the founder of communism. Marx wanted communism to rule the world because he thought that employes need more power and right that everyone should be at a same level of power, that a person should be paid according his needs. Karl Marx saw the workers as the good guy and he saw the rich and business owners as the bad people. So he supported the workers to start a revolution instead of telling them not to start a revolution. He was on the workers side. Also according to Marx communism had it's own seed of destruction.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was born in 1818 and he is a German and in the 19Th century revolution . His ideas were known as communism. He felt that the industrial revolution allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer.Karl Marx invented communism because he thought the working class was doomed to forever work for low wages. His ideas were inspired because of the industrial revolution.He thought that since there was less owners then workers, the workers would eventually get fed up, start a revolution and take over. Marx did encourage the workers to start a revolution.Marx thought Communism ment that people sh owes earn the same amount of money.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is a sentiment, a form of culture or a social movement that focuses on the nation.Nationalism is what show pride to your country and that .It brings people together as one, as a nation. Alot of people celebrate holidays such as our independence day, July 4th fireworks happen only on that special day. I am being a nationalist by participating and celebrating in all the holidays like Halloween thanksgiving, or Christmas is showing that you take part in nationalism.Also by just simply just saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school shows nationalism. Showing respectfor your country is showing nationalism to your country.

Italy is a example that is perfect for nationalism because nationalism is wat created Italy and brought the people to form a nation.Before Italy was a nation it was ruled by many people because it was divided in to many different empires.time passed and passed then people did not like thir leaders and they wanted to change their ways of living. so they formed a group that was called young Italy and it was orgainized by a guy named Giuseppe Mazzini. Camillo di Cavour another leader that helped lead Italy towards the act of nationalism.Also with the help of Napolean the third they went to war to fight against Austria and were victorious on taking over all of northern Italy. Giuseppe Garibaldia a leaders that helped Italy out. He led a group of army called the Red Shirts and helped out on uniting the southern part of Italy. Because of this brave man and their actions, Italy became one, with the leaders and all the other people taking part in the quest.

Simon Bolivar and the Latin Revolution

Simon Bolivar was born in July 24 17 in a Venezuela in a town called Caracas. He gained the Independence of gained independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.He was also known as the liberator and the "George Washington of South America".He became a patriot of his town to gain independence from Spain. After he took command of the patriot army of Caracas and captured again it in 1813 from Spain. Then Spain forced him to go back from Venezuela and sent Colombia who was in war with Spain at the time and Simon bolivar took command of their force and recaptured Bogota in 1814.

In 1816, Simon bolivar gathered a force from Haiti that landed in Venezuela. He then became a dictator in Angostura. Then after He defeated Spain in 1819, and liberated the territory of Colombia. Then he went back to Angostura and became Angostura first president of the original public of Colombia.Upper Peru became a separate state, and it was named Bolivia in his honor. He had killed alot of the Spanish army on 1821, he also then became dictator of Peru and that army had won over the Spaniards in 1824. Simon Bolivar was a man of many accomplishments and victories through his times.

In the end he liberated many countries of south America he was a victorious man during his time. He ended up dieing in December 17, 1830
Santa Marta, Colombia at the age of 47 in one of the bloodiest battles of the South America

John Locke and the Enlightenment

The "Rights" that Jefferson is talking about the qoute "all mean are created equally. He is talking about that everyone should be treated the same. Every one should have and together they form the whole group and no more discrimination to people.

The declaration of independence says that the government from the people. We are the ones that decide how the government should be and who they should be.The goverment gets his power from the people.John locke was the one that developed this ideas and who gathered ideas for the perfect government from enlightenment thinkers.

Copernicus and the trail of Galileo

There are two theories of the solar system and they are the geocentric and heliocentric theories of the solar system. The difference between the two of them is that the geocentric theory of the solar system is that Earth is in the center of the universe. The other theory which is heliocentric thinks that the sun is in the center of the universe .The theory that is correct is the heliocentric theory. The theory that came first is the geocentric theory.

Galileo belived in Heliocentric theory. By following in his belief the church was against him and then put him on trail. he was on trail because of his actions.The church belived only in what the bible said.After the trail Galileo was forced to stop beliving in heliocentric and then he was banned from the church.

Scientific Revolution: the scientific method

The scientific revolution lead to the scientist to start experimenting and it was also a challenge for the new ideas. An example is that Aristotle had a theory that was heavy object fell faster then the lighter objects and for like about 1500 years people believed him. Then came another Italian man named Galileo started to experiment Aristotle theory then he began to discover that Aristotle theory was wrong. Aristotle was wrong about his theory that heavy objects fall faster then lighter objects, the right answer was that objects with any-kind of weight fall at the same speed.

Then the new theory became to be called the scientific method. The scientific method is to prove wrong or to prove right a idea. But they just could not accept a idea or theory.Then came along another scientist that was named Issac Newton and he explained the laws of gravity and paved the way for our modern understanding of physics. Even Issac Newton proved wrong Aristotle theory wrong he thought that one set of physical laws governed earth and that another set governed the rest of the universe. But Issac Newton argued that there was a universal law of gravitation that applied equally to earth and the heavens.

Creation vs. Evolution

Creation is a religious belief that god made the eath and gave life to us and created all the aniamls and things in the universe. The church is against Darwins theory of evolution and the other people that belive in Darwin's theory do not belive in creation or the church. The church believes in what the bible says and tell them what to do. They believe that the universe was created in six days. Then the seventh day he rested.

Evolution is the theory of darwin he made it in four different sections and they were Darwin's Theory of Evolution - The Premise, second is Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Natural Selection, third is Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Slowly But Surely- and lastly is Darwin's Theory of Evolution - A Theory In Crisis. The scientist are not against the church but they are just trying to find another explanation about how the Earth was created and they call it the Big Bang theory.

In my opinion I believe in the creation theory that god made the earth the planet and the universe. Also that scientist are wrong that they are just trying to find another explanation for what God made. Some people judge what God did because they believe in the evolution theory. Some times i also get confused in what to believe to.In my whole life I learned to believe the creation theory.