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.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is the way you love your country. You can wear your countries flag colors or wear a symbol of it. Nationalism is the belief that one's greatest loyalty should not be a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history. Nationalism mostly means the love for a country. 

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon bolivar was a liberator. He was born on july 24 1783 and his parents was wealthy creole people. Simon was highly educated and his parents supported him. He was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is called El Liberator. He wanted to fight for the independence of spain. He was inspired by the enlightenment thinkers and the American and French Revolution.