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Russians Revolution

2010-01-13T08:55:00.000-08:00

Czar was assasinated in February 1917. That way Czar the second took over his throne. That is how the russian revolution started. Germany was the first threat to its terrortory. 1907 russia joined britain and france to form the triple Entente. Some of the major causes of the russian revolution was that many people and there was a lot food shortage. This went on for five years.

russians Revolution

2010-01-13T08:53:00.000-08:00

Cause of WWI

2010-01-11T08:41:00.000-08:00

World War 1 was a result by leaders aggression towards other countries, which was by the rising nationalism of the european nations. With all the countries building up their militaries they wanted to take over each other.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2009-12-10T08:46:00.000-08:00

In the movie Mountains of the moon burton and john speak went on a journey to find the source of the nile river. Of course they couldn't do by themselves so they took a lot of slaves with to help them carry the supplies such as water, food, cloth, and much more. While on the journey many died from hunger and thirst. They also died from disesas and infections. They also had to survive lion attacks. When they found the nile river they named it lake victoria after the british queen. It was strange because it was in africa and they are from british. The british took advantage because they had guns, rifles, and supplies.

Karl Marx and communism

2009-11-19T08:45:00.000-08:00

karl Marx saw and learned about the industrial revolution and didnt like the idea of all the factories and workers. Later on Karl went on to invent Communism. He thought it wasn't fair for everybody because workers that work hard would get the same amount of money that the lazy kind of workers would get. This led him to create communism which is still in the world today. Communism is when the goverment has control over people and the people have no control over the goverment. He wanted communism to work for people could have the same amount of money as other higher workers.

karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2009-11-17T08:54:00.000-08:00

Karl marx was a German man. Karl Marx did not like the Industrial Revolution, he thought the conditions in European factories were very harsh and unsafe. He also thought that workers instead of the landlords should be in charge and take control of the factories. He wanted the workers to unite in a worldwide revolution. Karl did not like the conditions of the factories. This is where thought up and made up communism. Marx ideas were known as Communism a short word formed for common. The workers would share their wealth in a communist society.

nationalism and the creation of italy

2009-10-27T08:56:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is the way you see your country or represent it. One example of how we are nationalistic is for example if we show our flag and the way we talk. And even the money we use. All the countries have a nationalism for example for us we use dollars and for a country like spain they use euros. We have holidays like christmas, thanksgiving and easter.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

2009-10-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

Simon Bolivar was born in july 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was known for one of south Americas greatest general. He has battled and claimed victories for spaniards, also winning independence for countries such as Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is also the first president of columbia. They needed power for the south so Simon defeated Peru, it became a seperate state. He named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. Bolivar went to great britain to search for help (armies). When he returned to Venezuela he defeated the spaniards and took over the place where he was born. What influenced him was that he went to europe in his early age and joined a patriot army to capture caracas.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2009-09-18T09:07:00.000-07:00

the theory was that the universe can be made more visible. the trial of galileo was that he did not teach parts of the bible. galileo belived in science more, and the catholic belived in theirs. the catholics did not like what they saw so they put him in house arrest. Galileo belived in science more then he did in the catholics belife.

Evolution vs Creation

2009-09-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

1)Evolution is made up by darwin when he found out that not all the birds are the same. he noticed that birds have different beaks and different living habit.He then tryed to make up a theory to see if its true. He studied the birds carefully and noticed that they were different. the church refused his theory. Only a few people wanted to belive him but they couldn't let go of their religion. 2)Creation was thought of the christians, they were a part of god and wanted their followers to belive their god. One belifes that the christains thought was that planets revolved around the earth. It was wrong when scientists found out that the plantes acually revoled the sun. They banned the teachings of evoulution of the schools and started to teach scientific creationism. 3)If i had to choose one i would choose the evolution because it is more real. And it sounds more convincing, the fact that we evole from animals. just like monkeys evole greater throughout the decades. Evoulution has alot of evidence to cover and it has the proof of why we are here today.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

2009-09-17T08:45:00.001-07:00

the scientific meathod was a bunch of theorys that try to prove an idea of someone else's theorys. One example of a scienticfic meathod is aristotle thought that heavy objects would fall faster than smaller objects. So one guy Galileo tried to see if he was right. He dropped a bowling ball and a baseball and they both fell at the same time. Galileo proved Aristotle wrong