Nationalism is a belief of one's greatest loyalty should not be king or an empire but a group of people that share a common of language, culture, religion, territory, government. The people and their government build up to create a united - nation state. What make nationalistic is that i live in the same country I was born in. I live arond people that was bron in the same country. I speak the same language, I have the same government and President that I support and also the same currency. Nationalism occured in the 1800's. It caused conflicts and wars. It influenced and spread throughout Europe.
Nationalism contributed and formed two new nations and political order in Europe.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions
Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios Ponte Blonco, also known as Simon Bolivor was born on July 24, 1783. He was a great leader for the South Americans. He builed up a small group of followers to attack the spanish rulers and won independence over Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia against Spain. This is why he had a country named after him because of what he did to help Peru a lot and now they named it Bolivia.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Copernicus and the trail of Galileo
One of the theories of the solar system is geocentric. The geocentric model is a theory that Earth was the center of the universe and everything goes around it. The geocentric theory came first. This theory was used up till the 16th century. The Greek Astronomy and the philosophy is part of the geocentric model.Another theory of the solar system was the heliocentric theory. This theory is the opposite of the geocentric theory. The heliocentric model is a theory that the sun is the center of the universe and that everything orbits it. This theory is true and is still used today.
Galileo was put on trail in 1963 by the Catholic church for believing that the Earth was the center of the universe and has put it on the book called Letters on the Solar Spots. He was put in trial because the Catholic Church believed in the geocentric theory while he believed in the heliocentric theory, which is going against the church's believe.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
John Locke and "The Enlightenment"
The rights that Jefferson was talking about was that everyone(including men) should be created equally. Meaning that we all have the rights to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. According to the Declaration of Independence, the government gets it's power from the people. We decide who should be the government by voting. We the people also have the power to overthrow the government if we feel is right. Although the people must also have a better reason to why go against our government when the government is used to protect our rights.
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