The Opium Wars

Answer: Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpodsand usedto produce heroin. The drug waws produce in, shipped from the East Indies to China by British merchants. This drug waws very addicted and had gotten many chinese on it in the early 1800's. This is how the Opium war started off, the Bristish opium trade in China started the world's very first drug in the 19the century, it was reffered as Anglo- Chinese war too.

The opium was introduce as a medicine to the Chinese to treat any diseases such as dysentery, cholera and diarrhea, it treated this diseases it was verty powerful and addicted. Howver then in 1700 Optium was introduce to the china as a drug to mix with tobacco and be smoked by the British. Chinese tea, sil became really popular inthe Western countries around the 18th century. The chinese were very independed they did not want or need anything from Great Britain or any other country.China was self sufficient, there was no other products to export to China so they decided to mix tobaco with Opium and promote smokingin China. Alot of opium was sold more than two million pounds every year to China The british and the Chinese went to war and the British end up killing alot of people. The Chinese realize that if they continue to have flourished trade then there economy will drop and they were gonna end up with no money and teh population was gonna drop to. The british won because of their advance technology and weapons and they trick the chinese too. They made the Chinese sign a treaty of

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Answer: In the film" mountains of the Moon" the Europeans faced many hardship as they explored Africa. For example, they didn't have enough food to maintain themselves alive. They had a lot of traveling to do, had to walk a lot and carry a lot of equipment. They were very tired of walking. Some of their equipment were stolen, which was very expensive. Richard Burton got a disease on his leg and could barely walk, he had to be carry. They were attacked and threatened by tribes. Richard Burton was attacked by a lion and John Speke ear got infected by a bug that had went inside his ear. They were very weak, they couldn't find any water to drink from, the first lake that they found was contaminated by diseases and was poison, dead animals were surrounding it. It is strange that the source of the Nile river was name by a British Queen because it was found in African and it should have been named by a African named. The primary technology advantage the Europeans had over Africa people was there advanced technology in weapons,scientific equipment, good clothes, but the African people had arrows, but the Europeans had guns, shields and many other weapons. They europeans were eventually able to conquer the Africa easily by their advanced technology that the African tribes didn't have so they were defeated. The Europeans conquered Africa slowly, it took some time because Africa was much more bigger then what the though.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Japan is made by many small islands. Matthew Perry had landed on the coast of japan to negotiate the trades between United States and Japan. Japan had many goods to trade with. Matthew Perry "bullied" the Japanese into signing a trade treaty by impressing them with the movement of their ship with no sails, and their technology. Perry brought to japan the impressive naval force, they left the Japanese with few options other than full compliance with U.S wishes. However, Perry didn't "negotiate" he "bullied" the Japanese to, he use the United States military army which was much more powerful by then the japanese because it was weak and they didn't have such great technology as the United States. The United States destroyed the Japanese town of Kagoshima, and began to force drastically unequal treaties upon the Japanese. The Japanese had no choice.

The Japanese economy went up during the years because of trading with United States. Also they developed more contact with the outside world so more trade. They were able to modernize because they were adopt Wester political, social, and economic institution in so short time. JApan had a highly educate population free of fedial class. They developed better technology whcih it grew indistrial sector. Japain is an ancheopelahgo because is surrounded by many (chain) islands

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is basicly a economic and political system based on the principle. Karl Marx's never agreed with the idea of capitalism, he didn't agreed with the fact that the rich became more rich and the poor became more poor, there was more benefit for the rich. Then communism came Karl Marx describe communism as not a set of measures to be put into practice after the seizure of power. Communism s considered to be the branch of socialism,a broad group of social and political ideologies which draws on the various political and intellectual movements. ALso it is a equal right among the people, and the system in place of factory owners getting all the money along with others influence. Marx saw the worker as the good guys and the factories owner as the bad guys because they workers were treated unfairly and the boss took advantage of the workers. Marx wanted Communism to take over the world because this way not only the people of England will have equal rights everyone else in the world will have equal rights. This way people were able to be treated how they are suppose to.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx ideas changes the history of Russia, he was a German. He was born jew, but then his family was converted into christianity because of his dad, job. He did not like the Industrial revolution. He was horrified by the treatment that the workers in Europe. Also he stated that the conditions in the European factories were very bad, harsh and usafe. He also didn't agree that the landlords were able to control factories and farms, he stated that the workers should. He didn't like this rules so he started what is known today the communism . Mark ideas of communism, a word formed for common, stated that workers would share wealth in a communist society. Indeed, Marx wrote that wealth should be distributed" form each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.........

Nationalism/ italy

Nationalism is the belief that one's greatest loyalty should not be to king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture. I considered myself nationalism because i live in the same borders as other people, speack english as the rest, we all have a common culture, i know about history, we all pay taxes to the government, and also we get along with each other. By this I mean, we can consider ourself as part of this nation. NAtionalism was used to create Italy. in 1858 -1870 many empires join with Italy and tehn ended up to start or vecome the shape of boot. Italy was ajust a a small land before it beame into what is known today Italy. Before they were city state. Before it became into a country it was ruled by Austria-hungary empire. In order to get there freedom they fought and the italian won.

Simon Bolivar

Simon Bloivar was so famous because he libeated the six nations Venuezela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador , Peru and Boliva from spain. Bolivar becasme the persident of Peru in 1824 to 1826, president of Gran Cololmbia from 1821- 1830 and also president of Boliva in 1825 - 1826. Simon Bolivar was compare to George Wahighnton because of his intelligence, strategies and how much influenced. Boliva was named after Simor Bolivar because he gaved them their independence in Agust 6 182 at the Congress of Upper the republic of Boliva. Bolivar was influenced by the French Greek enlightment, France and the Scottish.

Reign terror

The french revolution gave or lead to some great ideas. It also brought enlightenment thinker and freedom, equality and brotherhood. Kings , Queens and nobles were loosing power and the middle class and poor had much more power especially political. The reign of terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the onset of the french revolution. During the reign terror a limited monarchy was set up and a legislative assembly was set up to share power with the king. KIng louis XVI didn;t like this new rule because it made him loose so much power and he triied to flee the country.

MAx Robespierre's involvments in this is that he took control of the governement and tried to give reed of the monarchy kings and jacks. this was a big change everything was change. For example all teh number were rename, there was no sunday and all churches of paris were close. Now they had barely freedom, Robespierre ruled France as a dictator and his rule was call the reign terror because so many people were killed by teh government, This is how max Robespierre go involve.

French Revolution

1) Look back at the information on these sheets. List the reasons why many people in
France were critical of a) the nobility; b) the King; c) The clergy.
Answer: To much taxes. the noble or the clergy didn't have to pay any taxes. The king own everything . The nobles and clergy lived in great luxury in chateaux and palaces. They had a better life. The lower class and the middle class didn't have lost of privelages as the first class.

2) What might a French peasant have grumbled about in 1789?
Answer: The peasants would have grumble about not having their rights. Having to do eveyrthing the higher class said.

3) Look at source A. Explain what point you think the cartoonist was making. Remember
to explain the significance of the three characters, as well as the caption underneath.
Answer: I think the point to the cartoonist was making is that the peasant are lower class people they get no respect from the above people. Also that the peasants are treated just like animals as you can see in the picture the peasants are treated like horses. The quote ‘One hopes this will end soon’ means that the peasants have hopes that this torture and abusment to them will end really soon.

4) How does the author of source B describe the lives of French peasants? (remember: it
is not enough to say ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – you need to give examples from the source!)
Answer: He describes is as a bad life. They had to pay 20kg of wheat and three chickens as feudal dues to one lord and 60kg of oats one chicken, they also had to pay heavy taxes. They had a big responsibility in paying everything.

5) Study sources A, B and C together. Do these sources explain why poor people in
France resented the rich? Explain your answer using the sources.
Answer: The felt as they were treated like animals , didn't have no freedom life at all. Had to do do what the higher class demanded. Most of the time they work and work they barely had food to eat.

6) Rousseau (source D) was an influential writer at this time. Along with other writers
like Voltaire, he wanted France to have a more democratic form of government. Who
would be most influenced by his words and why? (remember to include extracts form
the source in your answer.)
Answer: The peasants will be more influenced to this words because they had no freedom right. Of course they wanted to be treated as human and have equal rights as the upper class people.

7) The pamphlet which source D came from was banned in 1775. Why do you think this
was? Which members of French society would want it to be banned
Answer: The people that banned this in 1775 were the king the nobles because if they haven;t this meant they would have to work and pay there taxes and do things as the peasants do.

John Locke he Enlightenment

John Locke Enlightenment was the first was probably the most famous thinker. John Locke created the modern of democracy,He argued that government and authority were based on Natural law. Also that all man are equal. His ideas influenced mostly on Thomas jefferson when he wrote the U.S. Constitution. In the declaration of independence Jefferson states that all mens are created equal and they should have the same rights , life liberty and pursuit of happiness. They also had the rights to despotism the right Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The government gets its power from the people. The people decide who is going to be government, the people have to approve it. The people have the right to vote to decide who is going to be the new president or leader. This is the kind of power the government has.

The heliocentric theory states that the sun is at the center of the solar system. The word heliocentric means sun and center developed by the Greeks. It was in the 16 century that astronomer Copernicus a mathematician presented a mathematical of the heliocentric system and how it worked. Galileo as way as Kepler believe in the heliocentric and supported it with his evidence.

However, the geocentric theory stated that the earth in in the center of the universe and the rest of the planets surround it . Both Aristotle and Ptolemy supported the geocentric theory, but not only them also some philosophers they call it the naked eye planet. To support this theory they had some observations. First believe and assumed that the sun and the stars revolved around the earth as it was seemed. Second that the earth was solid which means that for now is resting and not moving around.

Galileo was born in 1564 around teh same time that ShakesSpears. Then when he started to go to the University of Padua he started to get a intrested or a believe in the Copernican theory. The Copernican theory said that the sun was in the center of teh universe and that earth roated around the sun or a axis in one year it went around. Galileo started to teach the theory , however the Catholic church was not to happy about this. For this reason they arrested Galileo and this was the end of his life. He was also put on the Index of Prohibited Books, together with the books by Copernicus and Kepler treating of the heliocentric system. HE died in Michelangelo and he was executed.

Scientific Revolution:The scientific Method

Most of scholars ideas about science, came from the bible, and if no the ancient Greek Roman. The bible and the ancient Greek Roman though alike. For example, the Greek and Christianity believe that the earth was in the center of the universe, which means that the rest of the planet including the sun surrounded the earth. However, this theory turned out wrong according to the scientific revolution and was proven too. Another example, Aristole had a theory that the more the weight iin an object the faster it falls to meet land and the lighter that its weight the less faster it will land. On the other hand this theory didn't turn out true, Galileo proved it wrong by experimenting his own experiment, he started to get blocks with different weight and throwing it out the window and he conclude that they all fell down teh same speed, this is when the scientific method started.

The scientific method is a scientific prediction to anything. For example, in the scientific method you need a hypothesis, which is a guess or what you predict will happen. Then in order to support you hypothesis you need an slove your experiment or by any further observations. Also you will have to repeat your steps to have a better conclusion to your hypothesis.

Evolution vs. Creation

Question
*Read the following links about the two theories of evolution and creation. Explain, in your own words, each of the two theories. Then; explain which one you believe in and why.

The Darwin's theory if evelotion it talks about came from ape and slowly developed more human. Their belief are that we came from ancestors, for example that we are related to the banannas, flowers, fishes and birds. Another belief is how mutation are passed by. Charles Darwin was the founder of this theory and he also brought what is known as the natural selections,a mutuation and a inheritate gene, for example, if a human or a species had three eyes the next offspring will have it too. This is more of natural theory.

The Creation theory states we were created by God as well as the world. This theory is more of a religion belief and it talks about the Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity. The majority of people belive in creation because it moake more sense and has to do with our religion belief. They believe that God was the first one to create eve and adam and by them we were born, the whole family tree started wiff eve and adams. The creation theory was more in powere by then.

I agree with the creation theory because it makes more sense and i believe that we were made by God and all his creation( world)!I think the evolution theory sounds more of a scientific fiction, because how would we come from ape and develope to now what we are that means that all monkey should be humans. I think it isn't possible not at all monkey could have some of our things but it still would not make sense.This is my opinion and my point of view.

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