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The Russian Revolution

2010-01-13T06:25:00.000-08:00

The Russian Revolution started on 1917. This removed Russia from the world war I. The Russian Revolutionary occurs around two primary events : The February Revolution and the October Revolution. In the February Revolution removed Tsar Nicholas II lost his throne and the provisional took power.In the October Revolution, the Provisional was overthrown by Bolsheviks. People were getting tired of their governments that they changed them 3 times. This cause the revolution. The quote peace, land, and bread was what they wanted. They wanted peace, land, and bread to eat.

Causes of World War I

2010-01-13T06:02:00.000-08:00

There were several causes for the World War I. Some of the causes was Nationalism, Imperialism, and Bishmark and Alliances. World War I started on 1914 and ended on 1918. Military was one of the main causes of the first world war. The assasination of Francis Fernand causes world war I. The Industrial forced the Europeans to go over seas to search for raw materials which leads them to Africa. They start competing for land. Later Britain and France join together and end up as allies.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

2009-12-18T06:05:00.000-08:00

The Opium War between China and Great ritain was during 1839-1842. Opium is a medicine grown in India. It is used to relieve pain. It can also be dangerous. The british decided that they needed to balance their trade so they decided to sell and buy the drug to China. China didnt like it so they decided that whoever is dealing with Opium will be put to death. Opium is a drug grown in India and is used to make morphine and heroin. Most of the opium came from Turkey or India. The chinese wanted to stop the growing import trade in Opium. Obviously, the medicine wasn't doing any good, it turned into a drug. The tradings began to flourish. The British Opium trade started in China and began the world's first drug war. The British made the Opium out of tobacco so that it can be smoked.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2009-12-10T06:05:00.000-08:00

The Europeans had some hardships while traveling through Africa. Well first they were traveling by foot. Another was that they were losing some supplies like food and water. Some of them didn't survive the explore. Some of them got infected by the water they drank. It was pretty strange that one of the world's largest lake in the world the Nile River(Lake Victoria) was named after the British Queen. The Africans took advantage over the Europeans because they had a gun. Europeans were able to conquer Africa so easily.

Imperialism Project

2009-12-09T15:28:00.001-08:00

For the project we did in class was we colored in certain countries to show which countries were taking over others and which ones had slaves and tea and cannons etc. To also show which countries were taking over other territories. Europeans had influenced many of the other countries like America, China, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Eastern America etc. I learned that England took over places in Canada. Spain and Portugal attained land in the Caribbean. Europeans are the one that conquered the most. Many people like in South America and Spain speaks Spanish now.

Karl Marx and Communism

2009-11-19T06:03:00.000-08:00

Communism is a worldwide society. It is a form of gonernment made by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels. Communism is when all people should be equal. Meaning that private property, resources like plants, factories, oil, coal etc. should be owned in common by the people. Marx's ideas was that workers should be in control of factories and farms than landlords. There are more workers than landlords. He wants all the workers in the world to start a revolution. Karl Marx wanted communism to be taken over the world because he didn't like the fact that workers were working in factories very harsh and unsafe. After Marx died, communism didn't really take over because of the government. They didn't want communism stories written in newspaper or any criticizing about the government. Mongolia became the second nation of communism. Afteer WWII, many governments were overthrown.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2009-11-17T06:10:00.000-08:00

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 and died on March 14, 1883. He was a German who was born a Jew. His father wanted him to move the family to Christianity to get a job. Mark didnt like the Industrial Revolution. He didn't like the ways workers were working in factories harsh and unsafe. This ispired him to make communism take over. Mark is a communist. He wanted the workers to unite in a worldwide revolution. He wanted a form of government where all the people own property and including land and capital.

Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

2009-10-27T06:34:00.000-07:00

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.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

2009-10-22T06:06:00.000-07:00

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.

Copernicus and the trail of Galileo

2009-10-05T12:41:00.000-07:00

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.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

2009-10-01T06:20:00.000-07:00

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.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

2009-09-17T06:11:00.000-07:00

Scientific method to me is like answers to all scientific questions. Questions like heavy objects fall faster than light objects or bigger objects will sink in water. Scientists use scientific method when they start to do experiments. That is so when using scientific method to experiment people will start to believe them. Scientific method is to find proof of one thing that people has questions about instead of predicting them. The scientific method really helps it's a way that people experiment everything and observing new things. People keeps on asking that why is te universe keeps on changing? Well it hasn't they are the same. It's all proved when scientific does another experiment and it ends up as true. When something is true to the world that means it has been experimented and agrees with the experimental evidence.

Evolution vs. Creation

2009-09-15T14:36:00.000-07:00

The theory for evolution is more about how life is related. For instance, plants, animals, and foods. The development from life to non-life. The change in the genetic pool from generation to generation by processes like mutation and natural selection. Evolution to me is like how people, animals and plants keeps changing and growing. It is more like how some people are similar and yet different to each other. Like how some people are smarter than other. How some people are taller than others. Same goes to plants and animals. Natural selection is the cause for evolution. It takes the abnormal making it to survive the environment to normal. Like how men use to be monkeys now different and yet some how similar to animals.
Th theory for creation is more about beliefs. How the world was created, the universe was made, and life by some supernatural. Not everyone believe in the supernatural such as this. Creation is part of religious beliefs. In alot of countries not everyone believe in the same theory as others. Creation is about god and the the creation of the world. Some people believe in more than one god some people believe in one god and some people don't believe in god. It is part of religious beliefs.
I believe in creation because I believe in god and I believe that he created the world and made peace. I believe that god is the one who created everything in the world, the universe, and humans. Creation is part of religious beliefs and in my religion i believe in one god who created life.