The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution have to most important parts. The one in Febuary and October.

During the February Revolution the streets were really messed up. Tsar Nicholas II was took out power because of the terribly thing he was doing to the poor streets of Petrograd which today is St. Petersburg. Than the goverment took over in replacment.

During the October Revolution another name to be know as would be Bolshevik Revolution, [they want commouisun] another goverement came in and overruled the one that took over when they took out Tsar Nicholas. It was ruled by a small group of people. This Revolution was more established than the Febuary Revolution. The Bolsheviks people were already very big in October from all they were doing.

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"

Karl Marx and Communisim

Karl Marx lived during the early years of the Indrustidrial Revolution. He didn't like it all. All he really noticed was that the facorty owners abused their power and didn't care about anything else but the workers working and don't stop working. The workers would over work themseleves and with just a few mins of lunch.

Karl Marx believed in that the rich were the bourgeoisie and he called the proietrait and they would always in conflict. Also the rich would just keep getting richer and the poor would just keep on getting on pooper. Marx would to put a stop to this. He just thought it was so unfair. Therfore he wanted to a start world wide revolution and fianlly stand up for what they really deserve.

Karl Marx wanted the workers to share in what they got together, so they wouldnt have problems. He called this communisim. Marx really thought it would work but unforounlty it didnt after 70 years of effort.

Karl Marx and the Indrustrial Revolution

Karl Marx relationship with the Indrustrial Revolution wasnt really that great. He didn't like it. Karl Marx was born a Jew and turned into a Chrisitian so he can start working. But during the time he worked for the Euourpe factories he was treated terribly and the work was horrid. He didn't like it one bit.

Therefore he united the workers that suffered in the job just like him and his ideas turned into Communism. The word comes from common. The workers all shared the money in the socitey.