Mustafa Kemal

Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey, he did this by taking control of the entire country. He modernized by doing the stupidist things. He made wearing a hat called the fez illegal. He also made the whole country dress in suites and wear hats with brims not the fez. He said that the clothes that they were wearing were garbage and just ripped sheets. He said that they had to wear the same clothes as the Americans and Europeans because that was the right thing to do because thats what they did.

WWI Causes

There were many causes of World War I, many of them throughout the year and the need crops or industrialization. It was based on nation leaders who aggressed over other countries for rights of their own. One of the causes were Nationalism, The principle was ignored for the peace in the congress of vienna. Another factor for the cause of world war I was imperialism. Great britain, Germany and France needed markets after having increased the manufacturing from the industrialized work. Another cause was from the Bismark alliences which led Germany, Russia and Austria- Hungary into an allience. There were many things that caused many leaders to fight for their rights, which eventually led to World War I.

The Opium Wars

The Opium war was during the Imperialism in China. The western Europeans were still exploring places, trying to find new resources. In China, they've found tea. The British only had one port in China. The British didn't like it, so they decided to trade Opium to the Chinese people for their tea. The people in China realized that it was a dangerous drug and they make it illegaly, and whoever uses it could die as a result.

Mountains of the moon

Some of the hardships that the europeans faced in africa is mostly diseases.  They faced diseases like malaria, this disease is contracted by mosquitoes. The europeans were not used to having mosquitoes around them. Them also faced bugs crawling into the ear and nose canal. They were not used to these conditions and got very sick. The Nile river was named after the queen because the explorers who found the river named it after there queen because they were from England. The europeans were able to conquer africa so easily because of the technology that they had. For example they had weapons, and the africans had nothing but spears. The europeans had machine guns and many troops that were very strong so it was very easy for them to conquer Africa.

Imperialism Project

In the imperialism project we had to label where all the goods came from, and then we had to color in all the country's that got controlled by the bigger country's.  Like Great Britan, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, and Belgum.  

Karl marx and communism

Karl Marx thought communism would ruin society.  His prediction of society being ruined was correct.  He thought that society would be overrun by business, and that thats all people would think about.  And this is true, because everyone who has a business is just obsessed with work.  All they due is work, like one of the comics we read everyone was a computer head, the computer ran there life.  And this is now ruining society just like he predicted.

Karl Marx Industrial revolution

Karl Marx did not like the industrial revolution.  He did not like it because he thought that the factory workers were being treated unfairly and that they should run the factory insted of the landlords running them.  He wanted the workers to stage a revolution so they can try to gain power over the landlords.  Karl made communism because he wanted the workers to all have the same rights and to be fare between the workers and the landlords