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.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a russian man, like any other. Marx was born a jew but his dad converted his family into christians in order to get jobs. He didnt believe in god and he thought workers were being controlled by religion. Marx died in 1883 but he revolutionized in 1917, with his ideas.

He thought that industrial life for men was too harsh and difficult to keep up with in just one day. He wanted men to own their own farms and live off their own trade. Ideas built up in his head, that, men should unite and create a revolution. His ideas were known for communism, which is another word for common. He thought workers should share their wealth and make it an equal fair shared society. He quoted " From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".

Nationalism and the creation of Italy

Nationalism is a form of the way you represent your country and how your proud of it. It stands for loyalty and respect for its nation. It is the same culture and history a nation of people share the same belief of. The first nation to win independently was Greece. Greece wanted to take its place as an independent state of Europe. The Greeks broke out on 1821 of Ottoman Turks.

In western Europe the congress of Vienna was breaking apart. Many were ruled by Austria others by the pope. The prime minister sent to troops to restore peace and order in Italy. Italy was one of the countries that reformed while the other empires were destroyed. Between 1815 and 1848, numbers grew for italians to no longer be ruled by foreigners.

Italy wasn't always an independent country, it was controlled by Austria and ruled their Italian provinces.In 1832, a young man by the age of 26 Giuseppe Mazzini had arranged a national group called young Italy and the requirements were you had to be younger than 40 years of age. His rebellion failed in 1848 as it did for many other empires. In 1870, Italian forces took over the very last part of the territory known as the papal states, Venice became part of Italy.

Italy also faced many economic problems. The Italian government couldnt handle the economic problems they had been facing with Italy. Italy had entered the 20th century an unwealthy country.