The Russian Revolution

The febuary revolution was a revolution that Duma assumed control of the whole country. Which formed the Russian provisional government. The army leadership felt that they didnt have the means to supress the revolution. Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Nicholas of Russia was persecuted along with him and his family. The febuary revolution took place in many millitary setbacks. In the october revolution, Bolshevik led by Lenin and the workers Soviets overthrew the provisional government. The Russian wanted peace, land and bread from the communists out of the revolution but they had many negative affects from the revolution.

Causes of WWI

There were many causes of world war I, many of the were due to throughout the year and the need crops or industrialization. It was based on nation leaders who aggressed over other countries for rights of their own. One of the causes were Nationalism, The principle was ignored for the peace in the congress of vienna. Another factor for the cause of world war I was imperialism. Great britain, Germany and France needed markets after having increased the manufacturing from the industrialized work. Another cause was from the Bismark alliences which led Germany, Russia and Austria- Hungary into an allience. There were many things that caused many leaders to fight for their rights, which eventually led to World War I.

Opium Wars- Imperialism in China

This war was one of the very first drug wars and took place in china. Known as the Opium War it is also known for the Algo- chinese war. The drug was produced and shipped in from the East indies to china by the British. It got the chinese addicted to this drug in the early 1800s. When opium was first introduced to china, it was used for diseases like dysentery, cholera, and also diarrhea. The british during the 1700 discovered that opium could be mixed with tobacco to be smoked. During the 1800s chinese green tea became very popular and high in demand from the western countries. When chinese gorvernment realized that the british merchants were selling the opium drug was being sold to the chinese. Until 1838 the opium drug was restricted from trade , The emperor wrote a letter to Queen Victoria asking why it was illegal in their country but selling china such harmful drugs. The letter unfortunately was never delivered directly to the Queen. Since the chinese warriors thought that the queen never acknowledged the letter than it the warriors thought that it challenged them. Chinese officials destroyed the opium drug and banned english man from china. China was unaware of the british attacking, China was unaware of the attack and their advanced technologies and China was very behind when it came to their weapons. China was as a result defeated by Great Britain and forced to sign a treaty.

Film lesson - " Mountains of the moon"

Two english explorers traveled down the middle of africa where no white men have traveled before. Searching on their expedition the source of the nile river. They traveled with african men to for their search but unfortunately men died from malaria and many other mosquitoes diseases. One of the men ended up killing him self due to that him and his partner didn't agree on their stance of finding their source. They traveled for seven months with their men and reached many villages they had to offer gifts for to the king, and many men left upon the nights robbing their materials and gave up. A lot of them died from starvation and diseases from infected waters from thirst. They named the source of the nile river Lake Victoria which is ironic since its an british queen name put onto an african territory. Europe conquered Africa's men in their industrial advancement from time to time and most Africans had never even witnessed a gun before. So, it was an easy conquer for the europeans.

Film lesson - "Gandhi"

Imperialism project

I think we were assigned the imperialism project to understand how things are traded and where they are. Most of the students have no clue of where there natural sources come from: like spices, gold, and silver. I learned that many things were imported from Africa, and especially the need for slaves. I also learned that many of European countries dominated other foreign countries that were unknown during that time.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx is a communist and believe that everyone should get an equal amount of share in their paychecks. He knew that in the future, times like today, people will become greedy with money and needy with the things they want. Marx studied phylosiphies in Berlin and Bonn, in 1848 Marx and his coauthor Engels published this book called " The Communist Manifesto". The wrote quotes like " workers in the world!- unite!". The Manifesto set down many principles , Marx felt like it was a struggle against capitalists owners and their workers. He made drawings supporting his thoughts on how capitalism supported pollution, it did not help the enviroment and peoples lives were being driven away on their hard work. He also wrote literally 10,000 on the enviroment and how capitalism isnt helping it from its pollutions and multiple needs of factories. According to Karl "capitalism contained its own seeds of destruction". Many people thought like Marx but in time capitalism did win from our wars because of their increasing weaponary and machines that communists didnt have or could afford. It was an open hearted idea for Marx to think like that, then their wouldnt be any destruction and wars like their is today and for technology between the people.