The Meiji Restoration Of Japan

Matthew Perry didn't as much "bully" the japanese but as much as intimidated the japanese people. When he arrived at the port of japan, they could not believe their eyes.They had saw huge ships traveling without sails and weapons that showed the samurai class to be obsolete. After that display the japanese people had no choice but to accept the terms. The japanese economy changed drastically during the Meiji Period of japan.The emperor didn't like that the outside powers were getting all the power so he set in some laws that changed everything.Since the japanese were cut off from the world for so long, they didn't know how to moderenize so the emperor put in the educational system hoping to raise knowledge and national pride. After this the emperor took ideas from countries that he thought excelled in one aspect:from Germany, he took their military style and goverment polictics, from United States their schools and from Britian they took their naval strength and railroads. Archipelago means when a nation takes over a nation and whatever they do, the superior nation takes control of it.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is ideology that has no classes and everyone is considered the same and equal person. Karl Marx's ideology is that communism isn't something to follow but something to point them in the direction.Karl Marx wanted communism to take over because he thinks that it is only a matter of time before the lower classes have enough and stage a revolt. He uses history as his proof like the Civil War and American Revolution. He also says that the other classes depend on the lower class to much and that will add to their downfall. Karl Marx believed that the people who wanted a different lifestyle for the lower classes were the good people such as Bruno Bauer and Friedrich Engels. The "Bad" people were the goverment who is allowing this to happen and the rich people.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a german philospher whose ideas shaped countries during the 1800's to the 1900's.He lived in England during the Industrial revolution so he was in the middle of it. He was furious that the owners were paying the workers little compared to the profit that they made for the products that the workers made. Karl Marx believed that the workers should control the factories instead of the owners. Karl Marx soon wrote his most famous work called the "Communist Manifesto". In this work he stated that the lower classes will soon take over everything and overthrow the goverment. He called this communism. He also wrote a very famous quote that goes as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."His ideas for communism nver caught on and he soon died publishing a paper called "The Capital". Karl Marx had planted a seed that would grow into a huge uprising in Europe and become a problem for the United states.