Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The opium war was set off when Britain attempted to trade tea with china. The western europeans were trying to explore places and find new natural resources. China didn't want to trade with anybody. Britain wanted to trade with them so they gave them a drug called opium. Now that the chinese were on drugs they were willing to trade with britain for there opium. Now they were trading opium and tea. Later on china didn't like what they did so it lead to the opium war. Britain was the winner in this war.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the move "Mountains of the Moon" the two main characters were Richard Burton and John Speek. These two guys had many hardships to go threw. They had so face many different african tribes,Several Days of Bad Hyigene, Little Amount of Water, food problems, problems with slaves like stealing things from them,fighting and getting sick. Many of there slaves got sick and died. One of the problems they had was molavia. This was there main problem. There goal was to find the nile river and map africa. They ended up calling it lake victoria, which was the queen of england and up till today it has the same name. It is strane beacuse the population around it has african people with a river after a women from england. After all of this england came back to africa to conquer it with machine guns and this was porven to be very easy beacause the english people had machine guns while the africans had arrows and pipes.

Imperialism Project

In class all students had to do a prject on imperialism. This project was surppose to teach us about imperlism ang what happened during that time. I learned about what Belgium, italy, portugal, france, spanish, germany, and britan controlled during this time. Also during this time there were many things traded like tabbaco, cotton, silver, gold, sugar, slaves, coal, ivory, diamond, rubber, cannas, opium and tea. We had to show all of this in the map that the teacher gave us.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Max didn't like the idea of the industrial revolution. He thought everyone should be treated equaly so he developed his own idea,which was called Communism. He thought everyone should get the same amount of money no matter what you did. For example it didnt matter if u worked in a factory or in a bank you would get paid the same amount of money. He also said that the government should own everything including a person house or business. Marx thought that the bussiness owners from the industrial revolution and the good guys were the workers.

Karl Marx and the Indutrial Revolution

Karl Marx changed russian history forever. He wanted to sovle what was happening in europe and the unsafe factories. He urged the workers of the world to unite in a worldwide revolution. Karl Marx hated the indutrial revolution beacuse of the way things worked. He didnt like what the owners did by not paying the workers enough and not treating them good. From this he made his own idea name communism becuse he thought that everyone should be paid the ssame no matter if you were a factory owner or a factory worker. He even thought that the government should only have power and should own everything.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is the belief that people should be loyal to there country. Examples of nationalism is that i fight for my country, i speak my countries language, i do things for its government and i work for my country. Also u adapt to your country, you have there attitude. America has one of the best examples. All americans speak english. Some ifght for there country and most of us have jobs.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon bolivar was a creole, his parents were from caracas, venezuela and he was born in bolivar.Bolivar grew up in a wealthy family. As he grew up he decided to study philosophies. So he traveled to europe and america. In 1810 he changed his mind and joined Francisco de miranda and went against spain. SAimon started a revolution in south america. This is where Simon bolivar got a country namesd after him. The country was named bolivia beacuse he helped them get thwere independence back. The people who inspired simon were the enlightment thinkers. This helped him get the independence for colombia, venezuela, peru, panama and ecuador.

John Locke and The Enlightenment

John locke influenced many people and governments. He was an enlightenment thinker. He was one of the most famous out the elightenment thikers. He was so briliant that thomas jefferson was influenced by him. John thought about encompassed philosophy, government, politics, religion, and aboiut the psychology. He didnt believe in sense experience and tryied to show what was the rght way which is experience and reflection.
He thought the government should be in control and that it should be separated from religion. John's idea where that countrys should be democratic and should be run by the president and the president shouldn't have all the power. Thats why great leaders like thomas jefferson followed his system and now america has one of the strongest and most powerful governments. John thought that human nature is characterized by reason and tolerance. He also had a supply and demand theory.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The heliocentrism theory is the theory tht the sun is in the middle of all the planets. The geocentrism theory is that the earth is in the middle of all the planets. Nicholas Copernicus is the first one who came up with the idea that the sun was the center of all the planets. He knew that the earth moved and wasnt fitted to be in the center. To him the mathematics didnt make sense and with the earth moving it really didnt make sense so he made the Ptolemaic system. This system showed the sun in the middle and the earth circling around it.
The geocentrism theory was brought in mind by aristotle. Many people in the time thoght this theory made the most sense. That earth was the middle beacuse if you looked up in the sky it looked like everything moved but earth. This theory was extremely strong in the religious world. They also thought this beacuse the earth was solid.
In the 21st century we all knoe now that the correct theory is the heliocentrism theory.If it was back then i probably would have also believed in the geocentrism theory becuse it was the most famous one which can just be prvine by looking up.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The scientific revolution is about the theory of testing objects. One of the most famous scientist was Aristotle . One example of his work was that he had a theory that a heavier object would drop faster then a lighter one.Later on it was texted and his theory was correct. Later on new scientist came which was called scientific method. The scientist tested the theory of gravity. There are five steps to the scientific method. The first one is scientific theory. The next one is hypothesis testing. The third one is hypothesis bulding. The fourth one is analysis. The fiveth one is obeservation to see if the theory was correct or not. I think the scientific method is the testings of something to see wat will happen and what would be the outcome. It is also to see how things work.

Evolution Vs Creation

In the reading today the debate was about evolution vs creation.charles darwin talked about how evlution is the ase beacuse animals and thinds were first something else and how many things can be linked together like humans being once monkeys. He talked about how we strted off as monkeys and as the time past the monkeys slowly became humans. In creation the people believe that its a religious thing and that godmade everythin happen. They believe that everything is the way that it is for a reason and that how god wants it. None of these theories believe the other. In my opinon i believe in both. I think that god created everything and that it later becomes evolution and that things change over time.