The Meiji Restoriation

Mattew Perry was an American and he wanted power. The Meiji Restoriation had many imporant events happening. Mattew Perry was one of the most imporant people. He bullied Japan into signing the treaty but tricking them and showing all the technologies that the United States had.

In 1853 about four American warships were in Edo Bay. Matthew Perry was leading the commands. He came with a the order of from the United States government asking for Japan to open up its ports and to establish diplomatic relations between the two nations. He came with the sails of his ships down to show the Japanese the technological progress that the West has made.The Japanese decided to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa with the United States which opened up ports to United States ships. This allowed other Western nations to sign treaties with Japan.

The Opium Wars

It was from 1839 to 1842. China and the Brisitsh batteled. The problems between these two were that the Brisitsh wanted to make a buy and sell trade with China. But CHina just wanted to sell not aswell buy. The British wanted to "balance their trade"they decided to sell Opium.
Opium is a drug grown in India used to make morphine and heroin to the Chinese people. British thought differentllty. It was a medincine grown in Idina. iT WAS Used to relieve pain help with sleeplessness and reduce hungry and thirst. In 1838, China ruled that anyone dealing in Opium would be put to death. Shortly after that, government official began to destroy any opium coming into their land. But sadly China lost terribly in the battle with the Brisitsh.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The Mountain of the Moon was a very interesting movie. There was many hardship things they all went through.

The two explorers and the severnts went though so much to find the soruce of the Nile. One of the many hardships would of been the heat of sun in Africa. The serevents had to carry so much much food without any water was so horrible. They not only had no water but they had had to walk and walk ontop of sharp rocks without any shoes. Another hardship event of their travel would be the bugs at night. At one point one the explores experienced a bug go inside his ear therefore he had to burn his ear.

A strange reason would be the name. The Lake Vicotra would be named after a Brisrish Queen, When the lake is located in Africa. Why would they have a different countries speaical lady';s name?

The euporeans were able to conquer Africa so easily because of the adavaned weapons, they new more and the ways they did their things. they were very planned out while the africans really didnt know much of society; were kinda of dumb

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"