The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is a series of revolutions that took place in Russia . The 1st revolution was in February 1917 where Czar deposed and replace with what the people called a better government. Then later that government was replaced with Bolshevik Government which meant communist. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Russian Revolution he was also leader of the Bolshevik Government. To end the war they signed the peace treaty called the Treaty of Brest- Litovsk. That ended the war.

World War1

One cause of WWI was leaders aggression toward the other countries which was the followed by the rise of nationalism of Europeans nations. The western countries expanded trade and colonies. nationalism rivialries grew gradually and then alliances came together. There was a lot of causes of this war but the most important is when Franz Ferdinand and his wife was killed.

Opium War

From 1839 to 1842 China fought in the Opium Wars against Britain. It all started when China and Britain started trading Opium which was juice from seedpods which was used to produce heroin. Many of the Chinese people were hooked to the drug by the early 1800's. The drug had a very big impact on China a lot of people were hooked on it 10% of China was smoking Opium. Opium was intended to help cure disease but it didn't go that way. In 1839 Britain arrived in China with their gun boats and destroyed many costal cities.. That was known as the first Opium War. 

Film lesson:Mountain of the Moon!

The hardships of exploring Africa is that the mosquitoes carried malaria and people died from it. Another was you had to sleep with the light off because if you didn't the bugs would crawl on you and also it would get in your ears that's what happen in the movie. The reason why they w9ere exploring Africa was to find the source of the Nile river. Which they did find and when they found it they named it lake Victoria after their Queen and what was so funny about that is that the Queen is white and Africa is a black country. So its weird to name a lake after a white woman a black country. They had guns and the Africans didn't. So that's why it was so to conquer Africa because when they came back like 20 years later they had machine guns and things like that so that's why it was so easy to take over Africa.

Imperialism Project

The reason why we did this project is so we can learn about how imperialism spread across the world. What I learned from this project is that imperialism did have a big effect on the world on the world and that it spread rapidly. What i remember from the project is that I had to draw a lot of shipping routes and also remember coloring a lot countries because imperialism was spreading.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a very educated man he got his doctorate degree by the time he was 23. He met his lifelong friend Friedrich Engels. Marx moved to London to continue his studies. In 1883 Marx died. In 1848 his booked got published where it said "Workers of the world unite!" According to Marx capitalism was the seed of its on destruction. He believed that history was a struggle of the rich and the poor. Marx wanted everybody to share the same wealth but that didn't make any sense because some people didn't work as hard as others so why should they get paid for doing nothing and other people get paid for working as hard as they could I don't think he though about that part. What he tried to do was positive but he should of approach it a different way. 

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx had his own look on the Industrial Revolution. He did not like the Revolution at all. He felt like the rich was getting richer and the poor was getting poorer. He felt that the conditions of the factories was very harsh and unsafe. He wanted the workers of the world to unite and have and worldwide revolution. He also thought that wealth should be distributed. He thought that all people should get paid the same amount of money he also thought that the workers should run the factories instead of the landlords. All Marx wanted to do is have everybody treated the same he wanted factories workers to get treated the same as everybody else.