Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Meiji restoration of Japan


In Japanese history, between 1639 to 1858 Japan was isolated from the rest of the world. So Japan always fallen behind in terms of technology and modernization. The Meiji restoration was all about when the Japanese people got in touch with the outside world and the western country's technology.around 1868 to 1912.
Matthew Perry was a leader in the ships that came to Japan. the American ships needed many supplies, so they wanted to trade in Japanese ports. The Americans brought a lot of heavy ships, guns and cannons etc. The Japanese were scared of the technology and how they were staying behind, and they did not have any power at all. So the Japanese signed the treaty of Kanagawa, which allows the America to enter two ports in japan. After that the Japanese became modernized and thought that they needed to adapt the technology of the western civilization. The Meiji restoration is the adaptation of technology and how Japan became modernize.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Karl Marx and communist


Karl Marx is the inventor of the communist society. He observed the industrial revolution and found out that poor people in the industrial revolution gets more and more poor and rich people gets more and more rich. So he tried to find a society that serves all kind of people equally. He wanted a society where all the people will live happily.
Marx straggled through his whole life, to find a job, to establish his thoughts of communism etc. Later on he became involved with political study. He got some idea from his friend, Friedrich Engels. They both tried best to establish this system. He invented the communists system.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution


Karl max was a German person who was involved to the industrial revolution. He believed in a communist world. He fought to make a place better where all the people would work together and get the same amount of money. Then no one will be poor or rich. During 1921 he became the second communist nation. Marx was Jew but later he was turned into Christian. But he never believed in god. He only believed in peace of people. He observer the industrial revolution, how it was so cruel. in the industrial revolution, the rich people get richer and the poor people get more and more people. So he discovered that the communists society would help the people by sharing the society income to everyone by same amount. By the end of the world war II, he manged to make many country to be communist. But their communist was a little different then his idea. He believed that the workers would control the society but the usual society is very dictatorial.