Film Lessons: "Mountains of the Moon"

The English faced many problems while finding the source of the Nile, they went through disease and long travels. Both Richard Burton and John Speke suffered major problems. Richard Burton got a spear through his face and elephanttitus and John Speke got deaf in one ear and tourted by African natives. They also traveled about 6 months both ways over run rocky terrain they ran low on supplies because some of there people deserted them.

Also when they did find the source of the Nile they decided to name the lake Victoria. This is strange because they only found the lake for England. There were already African Natives living around the lake this is an example of Imperialism.

The reason the English had such an easy time trying to conquer parts of Africa is becuase the English had advanced equipment such as guns. They could easily survive the rough African terrains. 

Karl Marx and The Industrail Revolution

Karl Marx was a German Jew who looked down on the Industrial Revolution. He thought that the machines were controling people and making them do work so much they would go crazy. He also didn't like how the bosses and CEO's would sit down and do little to nothing and get paid more then all the hard workers. After a while he devoloped an economic plan called communism It made it so all the people would get the same exact payroll as everyone else. Now Communism didn't even start officially until after his 1883 death but it first was brought to Russia and is now not used in Russia but used in Cuba, China and North Korea.

Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

Nationalism is the concept of having diffrent divided land, Countrys, States, Continents, etc. It is everything unique about an area of land. Their traditions, currency, holidays, food, launguage, religion and history. Im Nationalistic by being an American citizen and using the American dollar, the American Launguage and celebrating American holidays like the 4th of July.

Italy was one of the many countries part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, then with war, the Empire lost half of its land. Then with fear, the Empire started to split up even more in to countries. People of common Launguage split up and formed goverments and laws. Thus, Nationalism was born.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Heliosentrism was the idea that the sun is the center of the earth. This was proven by science in the 16th century but it went against the church's geosentrism , so the church did everything in it's power to stop it. Since the church was so powerful they got the person who tried to teach the world Heliosentrism arrested and banned from teaching plus all Heliosentrism books were banned and removed from stores. They had a trial for Galileo in 1633 and they said that Heliosentrism could now only be taught as a hypothoseis and not as fact of course that has changed now.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The scientific method is a group of steps that try to prove some one's idea or theory. It start's when some one see's something that is diffrent from what they already knew or believed. Like when Charles Darwin went to the Galapogos island's and seen birds that looked diffrent, he wondered why so he conducted a theory that said that any living creature, over time, changes it lifestlye to adapt to it's enviorment. So he doubted the bible and thought that human's adapted to become as smart and useful as we are today.

Evolution Vs. Creation

Evolution was an idea thought up by Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin went to the Gallopagas Islands