Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium war was from 1839  to 1842, it was between Britain and  china. it all started when  Europe wanted to trade with different countries. So when  Great Britain went to India they found this plant well this drug. so then they went to china and since china didn't wanna trade with them. Britain  though  if we get them addicted to the drug then  they gonna want ti all the time and they would agree trading with us. That actually worked but then the Chinese government notice what they were doing  so he prohibited selling opium or using it. so then Britain got mad but they kept trying so they went to war with china and took over Hon Kong  and that's how China and USA ,etc   they trade with china now. It also helped  china getting out there to learn from  other and new things. And  not only that's one of the reason why china is so advance with technology now . This war was called the Opium war  because  the opium plant  was what stared the Chinese and Britain to fight since Britain wanted to trade so bad with china  , but china didn't. But at the end  Great  Britain  won  because they had china addicted to the opium and they convinced china. Also they had  better technology and weapons.The British  had firepower . and they took control of the important island of Hong Kong. And  China was also forced to legalize the selling of opium.

 

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The film " Mountains of the Moon "  was about  finding  the source of the Nile river  it basically talk about exploring Africa where no white people had ever been before. it showed imperialism in many. Some of the hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa was  the diseases, bugs, the weather type, the wild , trying to get  to the source of the Nile by walking , also  by being attack  many times by different tribes in Africa. But at the end  they found the source of the Nile and when they found it they named it lake Victoria and this was really weird because they didn't discovered the lake  people in Africa knew it was there but they didn't really cared about that  but John speek  and Richard Burton named it  Victoria because they were superior then Africans they had more  power . And that's how imperialism work . Also Europeans had way better technology than  African and  one of the primary technology was  guns this was an advantage  Europeans  had over Africans. Europeans eventually  were able to conquer Africa very easily   because they had guns , they had machines to make the guns too, Europeans also found the cure for malaria.

Imperialism Project

We did the Imperialism project to see how overtime countries owned others. a lot of countries were starting to trade . they started to bring slaves too, gold, silver, copper, coal , making factories in different part of the world to spread different ideas and trading help each other learn new thing.

Not everyone would come back a live though a few would survive their journey. One person that went on a journey to find an easier way to get spices from India was Christopher Columbus. They would go to India to get spices, cotton and opium but spices was important for Europeans. Instead of ending up in India Christopher Columbus ended in America what he called the New World. Finding the New World was better because now Europe was earning more money with the crops they grew in the New World.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a communism who studied philosophy. Marx made up a way of government he had an idea of communism in paper is sounded great but it wasn't practical . communism was a way to be fair with people. communism is when a country is govern by one person that the government control everything and owned everything in the country. people were paid the same salary even if they worked indifferent thing everyone had equal pay same pay. People had no ownership.
Karl Marx's idea of Communism was to be fair , equal and not let people ever starved again.He didn't believe in social classes.
According to Marx, capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. Communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism.
Marx wanted Communism to take over the world so people wont be taken advantage of and so thing would be fair and equal.Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial. Workers were often forced to work on huge collective farms and factory workers often had to fulfill quotas. In most Communist nations, the press was censored. They were not allowed to print news stories that criticized the government. People who spoke out against the Soviet government were treated harshly. Marx believed that the good guys were the people/ the workers(the proletariat) and the bad ones were the owner of factories(capitalists) because the capitalists took advantage of the worker mad them work for a lot for hours for cheat salary.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Marx was a German guy who use to be a Jewish but changed into christian.Marx was alive around the time of the industrial revolution. Marx felt that the industrial revolution was bad that workers were treated badly , they were controlled, worked and really bad condition and were unsafe. he was so against the industrial revolution that he stared to think of the idea about communism. he felt that the industrial revolution people were treated like machines not like people . The Industrial revolution inspired marx to invent communism so everything can be fare and so people wont be taken advantage of because he saw how people were treated in factories and how hard they work and so little money they got . people were being taken advantage of and he felt like that needed to be changed so he came with the ideas communism.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism: is when you protect your country when you have pride for your country and you don't let no one put it down. it also means how u represent your country and to be proud of where your from . An example of how i am nationalistic is that i represent my country where ever i go , make sure people can tell i am Dominican, i let people know where i am from because i am proud of being Dominican.

what i do that show i am nationalistic is the way i speak, i have an accent but i don't let my accent come out on purpose it's just natural. Also by telling people i am Dominican, my attitude, the way i speak Spanish, i have a flag in a window of my room so everyone can see it. And since i was born there my culture just comes out , the way i was raised, how loud i can be and how fast i can speak.


Nationalism was also used to create the nation of Italy. Before a long time ago Italy used to be a part of the Austria-Hungary empire. But when other countries started to declare independence Italy was very influenced by them. So, then Italy wanted their independence they had a war of independence. They're were disorder all over Italy which also triggered many other disorder in Europe. They named their nation and slowly broke apart from the Austria-Hungary empire. Then they made a flag for their nation . So this is how Italy used nationalism to gain independence.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

what Simon Bolivar accomplished.

• He was one of the south America greatest general.
  
• He fought the Spaniards and won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
• In Haiti he gathered a force that landed in Venezuela in 1816, and took Bolivar. He also became dictator there.
• he became a dictator in Peru.
  
• all the countries he helped honored him .
  

Simon bolivar was so famous because he helped a lot of countries in south America to win their revolution and free themselves from the Europeans.he was also famous for its collections on the physical sciences, history, philosophy and politics.
there is a country named after Simon bolivar in South America. because he helped them get their freedom from the Europeans.

Bolivar help defeat the Spanish control on most of the South America.Bolivar was fighting for the independence of the countries we know now as Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia.What influenced Bolivar was the French and the Scottish Enlightenment and also the Greek.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

The Right that Jefferson is talking about is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.since every man is equal everyone should be treated equal. and man was also born free and it should be kept that way too.Also, according to the Declaration of Independence, the government comes from us from the people , anyone of us normal people could become a government you don't have to be born as a president or your dad doesn't have to be a president for you to be one . also the government doesn't just do what he wants he get his power from the people that vote for him we have the power to get him out if he is not doing the right thing. The people have power on the president.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo
In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galileo started , two worlds come into conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism were against with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church.And since Galileo was against absolutism the end of his liberty and the end of the Renaissance came.
Galileo was very smart he had two theories about the solar system which were the geocentric and the heliocentric. Geocentric-that the earth is the center of universe and other objects go around it. heliocentric-is the theory that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the universe.
the first theory he had was The Geocentric theory , then he made another theory which was The Heliocentric theory .Also the theory hat came out of the scientific revolution was the heliocentric one that Galileo believed that the sun was the center and that the earth was one of the planet that was around the sun or revolved around.And the correct theory was the heliocentric theory.
The trial of Galileo was basically about him and his theory and the fact he didn't support the absolutism and church, because he had a different way of thinking about science , earth ,etc.
Dominican friar Niccolo Lorini files a complaint with the Roman Inquisition against Galileo's views. Included with the complaint is a copy of Galileo's 1613 letter to Castelli.Then Galileo travels to Rome to defend him self and prove them his theory. Galileo was prohibited to teach his theory so they put him on trial he ask for his trial to be moved to Florence but the Romans didn't move it . the catholic church was putting him in trial because they prohibit
Galileo to not teach his theory because they didn't though it was true they didnt believe it and Galileo didn't pay much attention to what the church prohibited him to do. Galileo believed in his theory that that sun was the center and that the planet revolved around it. but the Catholic Church didn't believe that , because it was opposite to a literal reading of the Bible . But at the end when Galileo was dead they admitted that Galileo's theory was correct.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about science and experimenting. At this time scientist would be experimenting and trying to prove their theory or proving another's scientist theory . Scientist argued about who was right or not and to prove if is true. Also scientist got eager to find important information , to  investigate, to make up theories and prove them. It took them time to find about  the world around us.

Scientific Method was the way to observe and prove you theory. there are step for this too. first you need a theory, then test your theory,make a hypothesis , observe, write down predictions ,have data  and consistent, then you would see  if your theory is right. And example of a  scientific method could be something about DNA example-genetic inheritance.

Evolution Vs. Creation

Evolution- The theory of evolution is basically about natural selecting and Darwin's theory.natural selection talk about how nature select who is gonna live and if an animal has genetic advantages there is a greater chance of survival. with genetic variation, advantages help evolution and when mutation occurs for good , for animal benefits helps the evolution of an animal .sometimes because of that an animal/living organism can totally change .

Creation- is a religious belief that human/living organism were created by gods , god , or a superhuman .and how man and women were created and human evolution.



well i cant really choose which one i believe in because i do believe in god but there ain't really no prove that he made us , or that he had supernatural powers, or that he created all of this the only prove is a book written during that time which is the bible but there are so many story and so many religions that believe in it and some don't so I'm not really sure about that . but then again i cant say i believe in the theory of evolution even though it makes more sense and they have some proves. but i still can't choose.