The Russian Revolution

The Russians had a revolution because they wanted change. They were desperate and the government was very bad. The country was lacking food and it was very expensive. During the revolution man people were killed. They didn't have enough guns so they used to send guys out on the field without weapons and they had to pick up guns off the floor. The main person in control of the revolution was Czar. He died during the revolution. The quote peace, land and bread means like Russia. They wanted peace and a good government and they were defending there land and bread means like they needed food for it to be cheaper. The Bolsheviks believed in the teachings of Karl Marx and they were very violent. The Bolsheviks defeated the provisional government and Lenin took over Russia.

Causes of WW I

The primary causes of World War I was nationalism, militarism, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the collapse of the alliance system. Nationalism is the love that you have for you country.  Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914. Then Austria Hungary made it an excuse to declare war on Serbia. Another cause of WWI was imperialism.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The opium war started in 1839 and ended in 1842. China fought Britain during the war.  China used to use opium as treatments for diseases and sicknesses. The Chinese had put opium in the green tea and it became very popular.  The British started putting opium with tobacco so then it was smokable. 

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie Mountains Of The Moons the European people wanted to find the starting of the nile river. They faced many problems because the African people weren't used to seeing white people. So they encountered some problems on the way and faced some hard tasks. The African people would like inspect them and touch there clothes and hair because it was new to them. Its strange because lake Victoria in Africa is names after a European queen because John Speek named it that when he found it. But he didn't discover it the African people living there long before him probably knew about it.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project because to see how countries conquered others and how in some places the speak different languages. I learned why some countries that i didnt expect to know speaks certain languages. I thought Brazil speaks spanish but they speak portugesse because spanish conquered brasil. Also some places in africa speek languages other than african. In conclusion doing this project i learned alittle more about imperialism.

Karl Marx and Communism

Carl Marx was communism's most zealous intellectual advocate. Carl Marx was born in Treier,Prussia

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. Also he believed that religion was a drug , it keep people from doing the work because it keep the people quite . another thing was that it keep people in metal chains. He wanted everyone to share equal wealth, not one person to be paid more than the other just because of their position in the classes of the society.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of 1modern communism. Marxn2 summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. His ideas were inspired because of the industrial revolution. Marx thought Communism ment that people showes earn the same amount of money. He ended up dying in 1883. He got inspired by the way workers were treated in the factories. Communism still lived on after he died.