Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

this film is about how the Europeans wanted to find the source of the nil river and and name the lake after their queen Victoria of england. they named the lake, lake Victoria.

This lake is one of the top 5 most largest lake in the world. the summary of this movie about Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Matthew Perry "bullied" the Japanese into signing a trade treaty, by trading them drugs instead of regular items that they can acctually use, the british people traded a sort of drug called "opium" for tea. opium is a type of herione.
it is made of a pesial type of poppy seeds, and they are boiled until a type of gooey stuff comes out of it. ( then the smoke it till they get high. )
so then they got addicted to the drug and kept on trading all their tea.


eventualy the british one and they got their ways.

quote: "

ITEM A: Capt. Elliot to the opium traders, March 27, 1839

I, Charles Elliot, Chief Superintendent of the trade of British subjects to China, presently forcibly detained by the provincial government, together with all the merchants of my own and the other foreign nations settled here, without supplies of food, deprived of our servants, and cut off from all intercourse with our respective countries . . . have now received the commands of the High Commissioner [Lin Tse-hsu] . . . to deliver into his hand all the opium held by the people of my own country.

Now I . . . do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, enjoin and require all Her Majesty's subjects now present in Canton, forthwith to make a surrender to me for the service of Her said Majesty's Government, to be delivered over to the Government of China, of all the opium under their respective control: and to hold the British ships and vessels engaged in the opium trade subject to my immediate direction: and to forward me without delay a sealed list of all the British owned opium in their respective possession. And I . . do now in the most full and unreserved manner, hold myself responsible for, and on the behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, to all and each of Her Majesty's subjects surrendering the said British owned opium into my hands, to be delivered over to the Chinese Government. And I . . .do further caution all Her Majesty's subjects here present in Canton, owners of or charged with the management of opium the property of British subjects, that failing the surrender of the said opium into my hands at or before six o'clock this day, I, . . hereby declare Her Majesty's Government wholly free of all manner of responsibility in respect of the said British owned opium.

And it is specially to be understood that proof of British property and value of all British owned opium, surrendered to me agreeable to this notice, shall be determined upon principles, and in a manner hereafter to be defined by Her Majesty's Government.

[Ref: British Parliamentary Papers, 1840, XXXVI

japan also had moderinized into a wealthy country, by trading with people all over the world,and they kept gathering natural resources until they achived what they had to.

archipelago: means, n. pl. ar·chi·pel·a·goes or ar·chi·pel·a·gos

1. A large group of islands: the japanese archipelago.
2. A sea, such as the Aegean, containing a large number of scattered islands.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Philosopher Karl Marx believed he had discovered the key to history: Capitalism would be over-ruled by communism and oppressed workers would finally be free. but that did not work. Karl Marx invented something called communisim.
communisim is when every body is equal, they must be treated equally, they must be paid equally, and they must all work equally. but communisim did not always happen, because in people dont put much effort in their work, and the people that do put effort in there work they still get paid the same amount and some people didnt think that was fair.




(above) Karl Marx

Film Lesson: "Modern Times"

The movie called "modern times" is a movie about the industrial reveloution. Charlie Chaplin
the main character of the movie was playing a man who was being over worked in a factory.
Chaplin's view of industry and the Industrial Revolution was kind of disgusted by the whole idea and was looking... for lets just say "justice". He wanted out he didnt want to stay in the factory being over worked day after day and getting paid about a dollar a day. After that scene he was looking for a way to chage the industrial reveloution, but eventually he fails.

Industrial Revolution - Child Labor

Child labor in the industrial reveloution was a very hard time in the 19th century. Children
between 10-12 were working 14-16 hours a day and they were only paid as much as 10 cents a day, because it was (for the owners of the factory) better to hire children to work in the factorys because they were smaller and if they had to reach into a big macine it would be easier for them to do that, because they were smaller. And also because they paid grown men more money, that is another reason why they paid children, because they would accept fewer amount of money.

captions by Lewis W. Hine.



what they did to stop child labor the they were sevral laws passed.
heres ALL of them :

The 1819 Factory Act : no children under 9 to work in factories. Children from 9 to 16 allowed to work a maximum of 72 hours per week with one and a half hours a day for meals.

1833 Althorp`s Factory Act : children from 9 to 13 to work a maximum of 42 hours per week; also children aged 13 to 16 to work a maximum of 69 hours a week. No night work for anybody under the age of 18.

1842 Mines and Colleries Act : banned all women and children under 10 from working underground. No-one under 15 years was to work winding gear in mines.

1844 Graham`s Factory Act : minimum age for working in factories reduced to 8 years old. 8 to 13 years old to work a maximum of six and a half hours a day. 13 to 18 year olds to work a maximum of 12 hours a day and the same applied to women. Safety guards had to be fitted to all machines.

1847 Fielder`s Factory Act : 10 hour day introduced for under 18's and for women.

There were factory inspectors to 'enforce' these laws but they were so poorly paid, they were easily bribed. Also many working parents were desperate for money and they lied about the ages of their children to get them work in factories and mines. So the laws may have been good in theory, they were very difficult to enforce.

Industrial Revolution - Inventions

During the 18th and 19th centuries lots of things were invented that made it easier to make things and get work done. So why it that a revolution. These inventions didn't make things a little different, they made them a lot different.

Geography of Latin American Revolutions

The term Latin American revolutions refers to the various reveloutions that took place during the early 1800s that resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in the latin american region. This is considered to be one of the most influential series of events in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

Latin american reveloution

the latin american reveloutions was all about conquering others. Columbus, Cortez, and Pizzaro were conquering native americans and taking over their home land. in spain they built a entire empire setting up governments in Latin America so they could control the natural resources, like cotton, tabaco, sugar, rum, and wood

simon bolivar

simon bolivar was born, july 24 1783 in vezuala. Simon Bolivar was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. he is called the liberator. Simon Bolivar parents died when he was a child and he inherited a fortune.