Hw #4

1. Describe 2 effects that Opium had on Chinese society.

 China became full of Opium addicts and there was a high demand for it. Another effect was that they warred with the British and its dynasty ended.

2. Describe why the Chinese Emperor lost his country.

After the Opium wars, England made sure that many of China's rules were changed. British citizens and other citizens of different nations in China were given more land

 

3. In your own words, describe Great Britian's role in bringing Chinese society to the brink of collapse. 

When China didn't want to trade anymore Opium the British became angry and they went to war with China. After the British defeated them the British citizens of China were given more privileges than before.

 

4. Describe in your own words the 'Open Door Policy'

It was a policy that created equal trading rights for all foreign nations and it allowed china to 

maintain its territory as well as stopping discrimination among the foreign countries.

Quiz #2

Summary of the Article
This article is about how China has advanced in many aspects including their military and their economic field. They have missiles that could launch to the North-West of the United states and they have an Air force that has better technology.

Hw#3

Sepoys Rebel Against The British East India Company!

It seems that the cartridges for the rifles the army carries has pig and cow fat lubricated onto them. It is against the Muslim peoples' religion to eat any pork so they resented putting the cartridge in their mouth or even touching it. The Hindu peoples' couldn't put remains of a dead cow in their mouth either cause in the Hindu religion the cow is the most sacred animal in the world. The Sepoys refused to touch the cartridges so they rebelled against England and viciously attacked the British soldiers.

Hw#2

1) Area is 1.2 million miles square peninsula.

2) Arabian Sea in the west and Bay of Bengal in the West.

3) Tea, Indigo, Coffee, Cotton and Jute.

4) Barbor started the Mogul Empire in India.

5) The Martha people from the west central India started attacking.

6) They had to pay a special tax and they had their temples destroyed.

7) The British East India Company came to India.

8) They started to take over in 1707.

9) So they can control the resources directly instead of getting it through trade.

10) The trains were used to transfer resources and raw materials from villages to port and manufactured goods back to the villages from the ports.

11) I think this was a positive because people had better means to travel and could move from place to place faster.

12) 12% of India was Muslim.

13) 82% of India was Hindu.

14) People rebelled because the cartridges provided by the British contained animal fat of cows and pigs and it's against their religions to put such animals in their mouth.

15) It started in Meerut and eventually led to Delhi.

16) They were either sentenced to sent to jail, hanged, or were blown apart in cannons.

Hw #1

1. Terms and Names
sepoy- Indian soldiers that staffed East India's Company's

"jewel in the crown"- The English considered Indian to be the most valuable of the British colonies


Sepoy Mutiny- The rebellion of the sepoys after the Enfield rifle cartridge problem


Raj- Refers to the rule over India by the British


2.                 Cause                                                                                       Effect 
       1) Decline of the Mughal Empire
       2) Colonies policies
       3) Sepoy Mutiny

Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism-

 The notion that people of a higher social status, were richer, and had more possessions  were most likely to survive and thrive, while the weak would die out quickly.

How does the idea of "Survival of the Fittest" or "Only The Strongest Survive" apply to social darwinism? -   

The idea of "Survival of the fittest" originally came from a brilliant scientist by the name of Charles Darwin. His idea was that the Animals in the wild that were most suited for their environment were the ones that would live and thrive the longest, while the weaker would die out. When social is added to the word however, it becomes the same idea, except it applies to our daily lives. 

How was Social Darwinism used to justify taking over the entire continent of Africa?

  Since Darwinism justifies the fact that the weaker and poorer should die out, when the Europeans needed land and resources, when they found that the Africans, for the most part, were poor, weak, uneducated, and  inferior to them in terms of strength, using Social Darwinism, they conquered Africa.

Find and provide a link to Rudyard Kipling's poem; "The White Man's Burden" in your blog post. (ask me if you need help)

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Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!

HW# 15

1) He accomplished giving back the South American land to the people who had lost it to the Spaniard Monarchy. He also became president of Peru and Venezuela. He got the country Bolivia named after him for his honor and bravery.

2a) He was so famous because he helped South America get independence and is the only man in history to become president of 3 countries.

2b) He worked to defeat the Spaniard monarchy.

3) He was fighting to liberate the South American countries from Spanish rule

4)
Republic of Colombia: He made this country
Venezuela: He became the president of this country and he was born here
Bolivia: This country was named after him
France: He fought against Napoleon and he witnessed the French Revolution
Spain: He fought against them in order to free South America

Hw# 18

1)
Camillo di Cavour- King of Sardinia, also known as Victor Emmanuel II, was a wealthy, middle-aged aristocrat, who worked tirelessly to expand Piedmont-Sardinia’s power.

Giuseppe Garibaldi- Fisherman, trader, naval commander,guerrilla fighter, poet, rancher,teacher, idealistic revolutionary in Europe and South America. He captured Sicily with a small army of Italian nationalists.

Red Shirts- The followers or soldiers of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Otto von Bismarck- Some say he was the greatest and noblest of Germany's statesmen and some say he was a devious politician who abused his power and lead his nation into dictatorship.

realpolitik- Meaning "the politics of reality", the word described tough power politics with no room for idealism.

kaiser- German for emperor.

3)
His thoughts differ from a liberal's because the way he wants issues or problems to be solved is not by political decisions but only by war. Liberals wanted to make peace instead of war. Bismarck wanted war so he could get more territory for Prussia. By blood and iron, I think he means the blood of the enemies and the iron of the guns and weapons. If you were to answer questions or solve problems politically it would bring you nowhere in his opinion. He said that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849, so therefore he would rather fight it out on the battlefield then answer to politicians and government.

Hw# 17

Pg 613
1) Two other elements could be art and beliefs.
2) Factors that are necessary to form a nation-state are Nationality, Culture, Religion, Language, Territory, and History.

Pg 615
1) 1859-1860
2) All of northern Italy except for Venetia

Pg 617
1) East and West Prussia were separated
2) 1871

HW# 16

1) IDENTIFY

a) Peninsulares- The top of Spanish American society and were men born in Spain.
b) Creoles- Spaniards born in Latin America, could be officers but could not have high-level political power.
c) Mulattos- People mixed with African and European ancestry.

d) Simon Bolivar- A wealthy Venezuelan creole general, also called the Liberator.
e) Jose de San Martin- A simple, modest, and courageous Argentinian who was also a liberator.
f) Miguel Hidalgo- A priest in the small village of Dolores.
g) Jose Morelos- A strong leader who lead the revolution for 4 years.

4)
I don't think Spain had the right to control South America because they were already in control of themselves and they didn't need anymore people to tell them what to do. The land isn't even theirs and they think they can control the countries in South America because they have a strong army. After Spain lost the war, South America had more power because many leaders were taking charge and they were driving away the Spanish.

Hw # 11

Pg 574 SKILL BUILDER
1. The chart and graphs help explain the political cartoon because the first estate (the clergy) and the second estate (the nobles) were higher in political and social status than the third estate (peasants, cooks, servants, artisans, merchants, and others) therefore that is why the cartoon shows a picture of 2 people, one a member of the clergy, and the second was a member of the nobles, on top of a stone that is on top of a third estate member. the third estate member is under the stone which is under the feet of the clergy and noble members.
2. The first and second estate might be opposed to change because they make up only 2 percent of the entire population while the third estate made up a great 98% of the population. So if they had votes the members of the third estate would win by a landslide because of the great deal of people they had. Also they might be opposed to change because the change might be better for the third estate and worse for the first and second estate.

Pg  575 CONNECT TO TODAY
1. The rich and the poor have many differences. To see the difference you could look at what they wear such as their accessories, jewelry, clothes, and shoes. If someone has nice Jordan's, a north face book bag, diamond earrings, and a big silver necklace, you could tell they are not poor because of their belongings. You could also tell if someone is poor by looking at their hair. If someones has highlights in their hair and they just walked out of an expensive salon with their hair done, looking good, and smelling nice, most likely they have a good amount of money. Also and in my opinion the most crucial thing to know if someone is rich or poor is their estate or the place where they live. If someone live sin a small 1 bedroom apartment where the electricity goes out a lot and you need to use candles for light the person is most likely poor and if someone lives in a 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, basement, 3 floor house with a nice garden they are very rich. 

HW # 10

1. John's definition of Liberty is that everyone should do what he or she desires and that they should live life as they please without being tied down by any laws.

HW#8

1.
Enlightenment- When the ideas of the Scientific Revolution paved the way for a new movement also known as the Age of Reason.
Social Contract- An agreement by which people created government.

John Locke- Philosopher who believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves.

Natural Rights- Life, liberty, and property were the 3 rights all people are born with.

Philosophe- The social critics of the Enlightenment period in France.

Voltaire- François Marie Arouet, published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, history, fiction, and drama.

Montesquieu- He was an aristocrat and lawyer who concluded that Rome’s collapse was directly related to its loss of political liberties.

Separation of Powers- The executive power (King), legislative power (Parliament), and judicial power (English courts).

Jean Jacques Rousseau- A philosophe who was passionately committed to individual freedom.


Mary Wollstonecraft- She published an essay called "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" in 1792.

3.
“Power should be a check to power.”- Baron de Montesquieu
What he meant was each branch of power should all agree before a decision is made.

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”- Jean Jacques Rousseau
 What he means by that is everyone was born to be free but wherever they go they were forced to obey unjust laws whether they like to or not.

“Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men.”- Mary Wollstonecraft
She means, if you let women have the same educational rights as men they will also have successes just as the men have.

HW#5

1.
Scientific revolution: A new way of thinking about the natural world and a period of the great advances in sciences.

Nicolaus Copernicus: A Polish cleric and astronomer who became interested in an old greek idea that the sun stood at the center of the universe.

Heliocentric theory: A theory that said the stars, the Earth, and other planets revolved around the sun.

Johannes Kepler: He was a brilliant mathematician and continued Tycho Brahe data about the planetary motion.

Galileo Galilei: A 17 year old Italian who had discovered the law of pendulum.

Scientific method: A logical procedure for gathering and testing theories and ideas.


Francis Bacon: He was an English politician and writer. He was  passionate about science.


Rene Descartes: He developed analytical geometry which brought algebra and geometry.


Isaac Newton: He was an English scientist who discovered that the same force ruled the motions of the planets, the pendulum, and all matter on earth and in space.

2.
People started to question theories.
People questioned the Church and Bible.
Many were curious about nature.
With the invention of the scientific method, scientists became making tools for making observations
Scholars challenged old theories with their new ideas and they tested them.

HW#4

1. The Canon Law, was basically the laws of the Church. In matters such as marriage and religious practices. It was also a system to guide people's conduct.
2. If people did not obey the Canon Law, they would face excommunication and interdict. Excommunication is banishment from the Church. If an excommunicated king continued to disobey the pope then the pope would use the interdict. The interdict did not allow many sacraments and religious services to be performed in the king's lands, so Christians believed that without the sacraments they would be doomed to an eternal life in hell.

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