David's Global Blog

Causes of WW1

2010-01-11T08:30:00.000-08:00

World war 1 had many reasons to why it started, but some primary reason to why it did are nationalism, Militarism,Imperialism, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Two types of nationalism were used in 19Th century Europe: 1)the desire of subject peoples for independence, 2) the desire of independent nations for dominance and prestige. First one, led to a series of national struggles for independence. Other powers got involved and caused much instability. Second one, had many powers try to dominate each other in Europe, their rivalries may have been a cause for the first world war.

Another reason was Militarism, All the countries well in hostile camps began building armies and weapons. Thanks to these high raise in armies, A class of professional and powerful military officers arrived and began to dominate the civil authorities.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

2009-12-18T08:44:00.000-08:00

The Anglo-Chinese War, known as the Opium wars was China's most humiliating defeat for china in history. But for European history, it's a great, victorious event in history. By 1830's English had become a major drug dealing organization in the world. The Drugs could also never convict the English because the drug was grown in India by the The Easy India company. The drug was traded to Chinese manufacturers for their manufactured goods and for their tea.
The Trading of the drugs had caused quite a big problem for the china because the country had become filled with drug addicts all throughout the early nineteenth century. The effect that opium had caused on china was devastating because of those effects the imperial government had made opium an illegal substances.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2009-12-10T08:42:00.000-08:00

Hardships that Europeans faced was when they we're attacked by a native tribe and an explorer, Richard burton had a spear through his face. also the other explorer john h. Speke was stabbed with a spear in the legs and right arm. When the explorer John Speke, found the Lake he named if after the Britain Queen Victoria but it's strange that the lake was discovered by the natives but Britain was able to name it.
The Reason behind Africa losing to Britain was the advance in their weapons, during the time that natives of Africa we're using spears, shields and blow darts Britain had guns which were easily use able and could take out 6 people with 6 shots. If Britain had fought using swords, and armor which they had used before guns appeared it may have been a different story.

Imperialism Project

2009-12-07T08:41:00.000-08:00

During Moloney's class, we Start Studying Imperialism in class. Imperialism is when a nation tries to dominate another nation Economic, politic, sociality. Most European countries start working on taking over parts of Africa and south america. Africa today is now a mutli-culturally society because country's like Britain, Italy, and French took over parts of Africa. Those countries used their advance technology like guns and cannons to take over Africa because they used spears and shields. Those countries we're easily able to take over because of that fact.

Karl Marx and Communism

2009-11-19T08:35:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx, communism most intellectual advocate, his ideas changed Russia's history for around 70 years but failed. Karl Marx idea of communism were workers sharing wealth in a communist society. Money would be give or paid equal based on the abilities, and what one person needs to live. he was originally a Jewish but was converted to Christianity. he never believed in god and had thoughts about how workers were controlled by religion.

He stated "religion is the opiate of the people." opiate is a drug.

Karl Marx and the industrial revolution

2009-11-17T08:49:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was a Jewish German, born in trier on may 5th, 1818. His family had converted to Christianity by his father, in order to find work. Even though being converted to Christianity he never believed in god. Marx dismayed the way workers we're treated in factories, European factories working condition weren't safe and was every harsh.

Marx argued that workers, not landlords, should run factories and farms, he said that "workers of the world to untie." for a worldwide revolution. Marx's ideas were called communism, a word derived from common. Workers would share paychecks in a communist community. he wrote that all money should be disturbed based on his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Nationalism the creation of italy

2009-10-27T08:42:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is a ideal, social movement that focuses on the nation. I'm Nationalistic toward America because i know the America Pledge or that i eat American hamburgers. I show of my nationalism by having a American flag also we as Americans cerebrate Thanksgiving and 4 of july.

While Nationalism was destroying empires, it also built new nations. Italy formed from one of the crumbling empires. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria ruled over the Italian province of Venetia and Lombardy in the north, and several small states.

Simon bolivar and the latin revolution

2009-10-22T08:49:00.000-07:00

Simon was one of south America's great generals who help lead south America through a revolution. His victories battles against the Spaniards help gain independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. After the revolution he was knew in south America as El Liberator or the "George Washington of south America."

Simon was born in Caracas, Venezuela at July 24, 1783. he inherited his dead parents fortune and traveled to Europe and America. He saw that they had new government not ruled by a king but by the people. that was when we chose to separate from Spain's kingdom and become they own country or countries. He fought people who believed in the king of Spain and moved from Spain.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

2009-10-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

The rights that Jefferson was talking about were Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights were to show that all man are born equal.

Scientific Revolution: solar system

2009-09-18T08:41:00.001-07:00

Geocentrism was the theory that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the planets and the sun revolved around it. This theory came from the Catholic church. It was the first theory of what the universe appeared to look like. heliocentrism is a theory that the sun is at the center of the universe. Heliocentrism derived from helios = sun and kentron = center.

Heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, heilocentrism was discovered through the scientific revolution. Heliocentrism also was proved to be what the universe looked like. Galileo who proved this theory was then put on trial. The Tragedy of Galileo's trial sentenced him to house arrest, putting a end to the italian renaissence.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

2009-09-17T08:46:00.000-07:00

Before 1500 scholars got the ideas of science from the ancient Greek and roman. Also found some ideas in the bible.Aristotle and other Greeks had done shown such great information that people still use that information. Others still also use the bible. The scientific revolution was a new way of thinking that had challenged the outdated ideas of Greeks.

The scientific method is a way for scientist to collect reliable information about the world. the scientific which people use everyday has 4 basic steps. The Question, forming a question. The hypothesis, making a guess of what may or may not happen. The Experment and Observation, you would experment your question to see if your hypothesis correct and record the data

Creation vs. Evolution

2009-09-15T09:01:00.000-07:00

Darwins theory of Evolution stats that all life desended from one ancestor. Darwins proved his theory by watching the finches of galapagos island. Each island finch had different beck size and shape. Through the enviromental differences on each island that the food sources, only the most successful beck type finch surived and other finch died.

The Theory of Creation is the religious belief of how humanity, the earth and all living creates we're created by god. Creations refers to how god created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th. It also refers to how he created both adam and eve. The Church and it's followers and gone with the theory that god has created everything.

My opinion to this long going battle is that both could be correct that god created the earth. Also that Evolution is what brought us to where we are today. I don't think that either are wrong or write i think we all have are opinions. If we had time machines we could always just see who's write and who's wrong by going back it time.