The Meiji restoration of japan

Mathew Perry "bullied" the Japanese by showing the United States "military might". He dropped an anchor 26 miles off the coast Tokyo and the Japanese were amazed by the movement of the ships with no sails.Mathew Perry arrived with no sails on his ships to prove their technological improvbements. The Japanese were impressed and on March 31,1854 the treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. After the Meiji Restoration Japan became a new formed government and many changes were made. They were no longer a feudal government and the emperor even founded a school of elementary education. Japan is known to be a archipelago. This is a group of many islands in a large body os water.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx believed in Communism. He believed that wealth should be distributed "to each according to their abilities, according to their needs." Marz also believed that workers would control government. The exact meaning of Communism is when common workers would share wealth in a communist society. Marx wanted communism to take over the whole world so that everyone would be equal in wealth. He also believed that the owners were the "bad guys" and the workers were the "good guys". He said that the owners depended on the workers to hold them up.

Karl Max and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a German philosopher that began a movement called the "Communist Manifesto". He believed that there was a scientific reason of how history progressed in the past and would progress in the future. Karl Marx hated the idea of the Industrial Revolution. Marx thought that the workers did all the work, while the owners of the establishments or businesses, took all the credit and made all of the money. He called the owners, the bourgeoisie, and the workers proletariat. He believed that the bourgeoisie would use their wealth to control the government and exploit the proletariat. Because of this Marx decided to invent Communism. Communism is when everyone gets paid the same amount of money equally. This became a problem because people started to be lazy and didnt want to work. The talented people got paid as much as the untalented people. This idea was a failure.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

"Nationalism is the belief that one's greatest loyalty should not be to a king or a empire but but to a nation of people who share a common history or culture." People today are still very nationalistic. Such as my family and many families around the world. I am nationalistic in many ways due to the fact that i share the same nationality, cultural beliefs ,language, history ,religion, and even territory with others. Nationalism was used to create the nation of Italy.In 1815 and 1848,Italians didn't want to live under the foreign rulers no longer. So in 1852 a man named Camillo di Cavour decided to unify the nations or city states of Italy. Cavour achieved his goal and Italy is now a nationalistic country.