Javiers Global Blog

The Russian Revolution

2010-01-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

The start of the Russian Revolution was when Czar was leader and they were at war with Germany they were getting destroyed in battle fields so they chose to quit the war and go home. since they quit the war Russia had to give part of there land and have a peace treaty with Germany. Then cause the revolution. Czar was force to step down and Bolshevik communist people began to us this to make Russia a communist country. They wanted a new government and so communist came in and things began to change. Lenin a leader of communist promise the people peace and change for every one. they had to share everything and the government controlled every thing.

WWI

2010-01-16T09:35:00.000-08:00

The Triple alliance and the Triple Entente ,2 alliance fight against each other because Nationalism, Militarism, and Assassination of Franz Ferdinand. the Triple alliance was Germany, Italy and Austria Hungary and the triple entente was France, Russia, and England. the start of the war was when Francis Ferdinand was visting a country when a serbian shot him and led to a chain reaction of the start of war war I.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

2010-01-13T06:41:00.000-08:00

The start of the Opium wars was that British wanted to trade with china, but since china was Isonalists they dint feel comfortable on trading. they were isolated from other countries they thought they were better than every one else. Then British started giving out free opium, opium was a drug that was given to the Chinese people for free for there plan. Very soon the Chinese people became very addicted to it. so the British stop giving out opium unless china will let them trade tea with them. then china got mad and started the war with them both. since china was isonalist they weren't very strong but they thought they were which mad them really far behind.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2010-01-13T06:16:00.000-08:00

Europeans faced many difficulties in africa like bugs that are deadly because they have a decease in them and if they bite you u get affected and u die. also african because they are invading there territory. they were looking for the nile river and the Europeans named it Lake Victoria - the third largest lake in the world. It is wired that they named it after the british queen because the queen is white and the country is all black. later on Europeans conquered africa so easy because africans weapons were spears and arrows and Europeans had guns. so they wipe them out and conquered them.

Imperialism Project

2009-12-10T06:26:00.000-08:00

We did the Imperialism Project to get a better understanding of where is imperialism. Of what countries were it and what conutries were not. What i learn about this progect was that the contries were able to control goods like the british. They controled most of it. we drew shipping roats and colored in the land that were important.

Karl Marx and Communism

2009-11-30T19:14:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was german and created the idea communism. He doesn't like the idea industrial revolution. He doesn't agree with the workers in europe He thought that the works had power over the landlords. This made him think of Communism were the governments would control everything and the people cant do nothing about it. He wanted every body to work for the same money and saw that they all were treated equal.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2009-11-30T19:01:00.000-08:00

karl marx was born on may 5th,1818. He created communism and dint like the idea of industrial revolution because he thought it wasn't fair for people. he thought people should be payed the same money. Some people work harder than others and still get payed the same. communism is still around today like in cuba. communism is control by the governments like the house u live in and cars. This led to people leaving the countries because its not fair for people.

Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

2009-11-19T06:41:00.000-08:00

Nationalism means supporting your country belonging to it fighting for it. Nationalism is everywhere in our country. we all speak the same language english. we have holidays to remember like a important one july 4 the day we got our independence. we also root for teams in sports of were we from.

Nationalism help create italy by our independent nation the ideas they got from after the empire they once were.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

2009-10-22T06:46:00.000-07:00

Simon Bolivar was born on july 24 1783 with wealty parents in carcas. He is well known as an hero in South America. Simon helped many South American countries trying to win them independences. Bolivar went to travle to london and came up with a idea to start a revoulition. he went to america to study our gverment system after he waws done with that he became sure to start a revoulution in south america.
Simon fought and recieved independence for Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, and Ecuador. one of the countires in south america was named after him in his great victory and he recvied independinces for all thoses countries.

The Enlightment

2009-10-05T17:11:00.000-07:00

The Enlightenment was for new ways of people to come up with many ideas. John Locke an english philosopher and an enlightenment thinker, he had many ideas. His idea influenced people like Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration of independence. On july 4 we celebrate a special day for our independence's.

The declaration of independence is an example of an enlightenment, it's written by a group of people from america which they were also enlightenment thinkers. It's about civil rights in America. To be free and have happiness. This change the way people think in America, for example it gave people the right to vote and every man was equal.

so now we get to chose our government and president to not give another to much power its called "The Three Branches of Government". It includes, the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and The Executive Branch.

Copernicus and The Trial of Galileo

2009-09-23T17:12:00.000-07:00

The Scientific Revolution was a theory of 2 Geocentric and the Heliocentric. The Heliocentric theory was a theory about the sun still and the our world moves around it. Geocentric theory is that the world its at the center of the universe and we don't move. Geocentric theory was the first theory to be said at known, but a person name Galileo wants to prove that theory wrong to go with his theory which is heliocentric.

Geocentric and Heliocentric 2 theories of one to be proven right. Geocentric theory was said by the catholic church which today is known as the wrong theory. Galileo's theory was right cause u all know that the sun is at the center and we orbit around the sun like the other planets. But Galileo was put under arrest of believing in his beliefs.

-Scientific Revolution-The Scientific Method-

2009-09-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

The scientific revolution was a new way of thinking that challenenged the Ancient Greeks and Romans. People continued to beleive in stuff that weren't showen or proven until the Scienitfic Revolution they belive in what other people said. No one would not ask no one to prove there answer or at least give a hint. Scientific revolution is knowen as a error.

Many of us students uses a similar method to the scientific method. we use this method because we have to prove our answer buy details or have details to know why its doing that or how. my thoughts of the scientific method is that its better to use u prove your answer and how u got it not like the scientific revolution know as an error.

Evolution. Creation

2009-09-15T18:12:00.000-07:00

Evolution is when you evolve to something different and it say it is usually good not all the time thou. Evolution can make you do many things that u couldn't do before , evolving to a completely different thing or creature.

Creation is when to create something causing it to exist bringing the world and the universe into existence. like us were created by god and he created the earth then we brought this world in to existence how we live and do things.

I believed in creation because we had to be created buy something we couldn't just be there forever. so god created us, and we evolved to by nature thats how we grow old and how we live and die.