Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was the leader of Turkey after the Muslim empire have fell due to loss in the war. Even though the Muslim empire have been separate they still stuck to their rules and regulations. The separated countries have followed religious rules. Mustafa Kemal wanted to changed that. He wanted to get out of the stone age and be in with the new age. He wanted to be how the European people were, with there clothes, style and how they act. He believe that the style people are wearing before was not modern, so certain clothing was illegal to wear like a veil.

Secular- not pertaining to or connected with religion.

Film Lession :Gandhi

From the movie "Gandi" Gandi showed many ways to help his people get independence from Great Britian. For one, Gandi told the people to make their own clothing; he told them that he spin his own clothes everyday before he does anything. Next he said to never fight back with the Police, "violence with violence will not solve anything". If they start with you and you don't fight back then it would show who the bad people are. Gandi took a large group of people to march to the Ocean and get Salt Water. Thus when they evaporate the water they get salt to use. They did this to not to buy anything the British made or sold. With hard work and the help of Gandhi; India have recieve Indepencence from Great Britian.

I believe that India waited a certain time to fight away from Great Britian, because during that certain time (1947) Great Britian was in an economic breakdown.

The Russian Revolution

It all started when the Russians went into WWI. They were not prepared for this war; over four million men have died in the first year of the war against the germans. later on February 1917, Czar Nicholas had dethrone himself because he could not know what to do anymore. The government could get there selves out of the war.Workers and peasants revolted against the landlords and factory owners. Peasants expropriated (or took over) land and factories were closed when workers refused to work.  People in the city started to starve and the economy was getting destroyed. The Bolsheviks used this to there advantages and defeat Russia.  In the end Russia have turned their government into communism and made the peasants work in the farms and the workers gained control of the factory. This brought peace into Russia.  

Causes of WW1

There were many causes to WWI. Some were nationalism, militarism , and the assiantion of Franz Ferdinand "which started the war". Nationalism is a term used to describe one's deep pride for a country. The strong feelings of Nationalism turned Frenchmen againist Germans and Russians againist Austrians. Militarism is when your prepping for you nation army. In the European countries army's were getting ready with guns, ammo, and aid to go to war. The thing that triggered the war to start was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

In Asia Britian had a ton of Opium. With that opium they traded with the chinese and the chinese got really additcted to it. Too much opium can harm the body so the government closed the ports for the Britsh from docking. This led to the Opium War. In the end of this war china was forced to open their ports for the Britsh to dock their boats for trading with the chinese again because they lost the war against them.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Recently, we watch the film called 'Mountains of the Moon". Its is about when two white guys goto Africa searching for the source of the Nile river. They have went through a lot looking for the source of the Nile river some have caught maliria,bugs have went into people ears and have been capture from others tribes. Other tribes havent seen white people before so they didnt know if they were good or bad. Later on John Speke had found the source of the Nile, but his partner didnt think so. They went back to England to debate who was right and who was right or wrong. The debate could not have happen because John Speke had killed himself before thwe debate. Later on when they went back to Africa, John Speke was right it was the source of the Nile. They renamed the river Lake Victoria. The Africans didnt not fight back with the name of the lake because the english men were stronger and had more technology then the Africans. The europeans had guns and the Africans had spears. The Europeans have invented machine guns and a cure for maliria they have invaded and concure Africa easily.

Imperialism Project

We did the Industrial project so it can show us how everything came to be. What I learned from this project is that you cannot get everything from one place meaning that to get what you need trading must take place like spices for example merchants trade from one another to get to a certain place. Also that different nations took control of other nations to grow crops so they don't have to buy from others.