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The Russian's had a revolution because of the revolution that had happened on February and October. Causes of the Russian Revolution was because of political, economic and of socialism. The February revolution happened because of the Czar Nicholas II had left the throne. Czar Nicholas II was the one who engaged Russia into WWI and he kept sending troops to fight while people of starving. He was being a bad Czar and was abdicated from his throne. The October Revolution was because of the Soviet Union establishing. Bolsheviks were the people who had defeated the Russian Revolution. They also had a leader, his name was Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was a communist who didn't agree to the war. He followed to what Karl Marx and his communism. The night of November 6, the Bolsheviks attacked the Russian capital and that night they had won. The quote "Peace, land and bread" by Lenin meant that he would promise them peace, land and food for when the war is finished. They had fought for what they wanted.
The cause of the WWI was because of Nationalism, Militarism, and Imperialism. All of the nations believed that their nations were the best and fought to prove that it was true. If you were from one nation you would think your nation is superior and more powerful than all the others. With all the countries thinking differently it brought problems and to solve it they used war. The war was also used to see who can own the mos land. Imperialism came in because of Africa and Asia. Europe would mostly conquer them because they had more force with them. To Africa and Asia it wasn't fair because they were being controlled while Europe thought it was good for them. Well that was imperialism, now Militarism comes in because Europe had much greater military. They were getting their military ready for war and to have everything organized and prepared for war. Finally what actually started the war was because of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. He had put the countries in their alliance and now because someone had assassinated him the war begun.
The Opium War began in China, the British wanted China's tea but they didn't want to trade with the British. The British found something that was addicting and knew the Chinese wouldn't get tired of getting. Opium was what the Chinese wanted and the English had it. Opium was very addicting to anyone but since the British were the ones trading it with the China and for them to get Opium they had to trade tea. Soon the government of China didn't like the idea of trading tea for Opium. The government told everyone he would have the person who gets opium from the British would be killed. China also only had one port for the British to come through and even if it wasn't easy for them they still wanted to tea and went threw that port to get their tea. The British used war to get what they wanted. They had very god technology and used their advanced technology to fight against China and won. They made China sign the "Treaty of Nanjing" which allowed the British to come into China in any port they wanted to get the tea. The Chinese didn't want that so asked for another war and once again lost. Which gave the British more power.
Mountain of the Moon was a meaningful movie, it showed that it wasn't easy to go across Africa without getting into a problem. When John Speke and Richard Burton went to Africa for the first time their journey didn't come out as planed. They both got hurt but didn't give up, Richard and John both went to Africa again to find the Nile River. This time they brought much more supplies from Europe for their journey. Also had more men from Africa to travel with them. The journey to find the Nile River wasn't easy people got hurt or have gotten a disease. When John and Richard were on their journey with their men they would meet up with other Native Africans who never saw a white person. To them John and Richard were something unusual but if Richard or John wouldn't trade with the tribe the tribe would kill them. John had gotten beetle in his ear and Richard couldn't walk because of something with his foot. After Richard wasn't able to walk anymore the have found Lake Victoria and thought it was the Nile River until they realized it wasn't.
Lake Victoria was named after the British Queen, this is strange because the lake has always been there and people were living there. The lake wasn't named after the queen of Africa or no one from Africa. Africans weren't able to change the name because the Europeans were much superior. The primary technological advantage that Europeans had over African people were mostly the guns because Africans have never seen a gun before. In the movie the king of the Native Africans was shocked and amused of the gun Richard had shown him. The gun gave the king much more power and people were terrified of getting next to him. The gun would easily beat the spears the Africans had. Since Europeans also the machine gun and much better people to fight against Africa and were able to find a cure to the disease in Africa. With all the things England had they were able to conquer Africa easily.
We did the Imperialism Project to learn on how during the European Imperialism people have traveled the seas to get raw materials from other countries. I learned that everyone traded in that period and to trade they had to travel in ships. 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. Much has been traded during the European Imperialism, Europeans have traveled traded and gain many raw material from other continents.
Communism was the idea of Karl Marx who didn't like the idea of Industrial Revolution so he created Communism everywhere. Karl Marx thought this was a better idea and better way for the society. He thought that people weren't getting enough pay. Communism gave everyone the same pay no matter what job they had. By doing this he wanted everyone to be even, nobody could own their own land or property.
Some people liked this idea and other didn't. Communism helped mostly the people who weren't getting the right pay and who deserved a better one. In the Industrial Revolution the workers would work hard but the owners would get a better pay. He wanted this idea to spread for everything to be better for the workers. Karl Marx believed that the workers were the good guys because they worked hard for little pay. While the bad guys were the ones who owned the factories. Karl Marx believed this because the owners took charge and didn't work as hard but still got paid more. Karl Marx idea for Communism is still going on till this day in some countries. It did work out fine for some countries but not all.
Karl Marx felt that the Industrial Revolution wasn't a great idea. He did not like the way the workers were being treated and how the factories were unsafe. Karl Marx did not support the Industrial Revolution at all. Since the factories were all unsafe and harsh, Marx fought to get the right for workers to be the ones to control the factories not the landlords. Karl Marx wanted the Industrial Revolution to work in a whole different way but what he wanted more was for it to be safe at least. Karl Marx also didn't like the idea of children working in the factories with them getting no breaks. While the children should be getting an education they are at factories that weren't safe and working. Also while working so many hours they didn't get payed much. The landlords got all the luxury while the people who worked hard and many hours didn't, which wasn't fair. Karl Marx didn't like this anymore and invented Communism. Where everyone would share the money that was being earned. They would all earn the same no matter what their job was and Karl Marx thought that was a better way to have the society going. Karl Marx had his own idea and opinion like everyone else. There were some that agreed and some that didn't, Karl Marx was one that did not agree and made Communism.
