The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Mathew Perry went to the coasts of Japan to trick the Japanese, pretending that he was "negotiating". Japan did not desire to trade with any other nation/country as they were in isolation. Commodore Perry wasn't negotiating as much as bulling Japan. He brought a naval force to Japan that did not use sails. He did this to impress the Japanese, and it worked. The Japanese had never seen anything like them.



During the Meiji Rostoration, japan began to "westernize" itself. They did this by centrilizing their government. Japan set out an expedition to "gather wisdom from all over the world". They set out an ambitious program military, social, political, and economic reforms that transformed Japan into a modern nation - state and major world power.

Japan is an Archipelago. This means that Japan is made up of a chain of islands.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx's idea of communism made peoples' feelings on how it was living in the industrial revolution. Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto stating his ideas of communism and saying that the landlords should should not be controlling the workers as there was a majority of workers. He hated the fact that the poor were getting poorer, while the rich were getting richer. He believed that everyone should be paid the same.

He thought that capitalism was evil because the rich had all the power. To him the Bourgeois (Owners) were the bad guys as they barely did any work and became richer. The good guys then were the proletariat (workers) as they worked hard and were the majority in the population. He wanted all the proletariats of the world to unite and revolt against all the bourgeois.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx did not like the Industrial Revolution. He was disapointed by the treatment of workers in Europe. The conditions in the factories were very harsh and unsafe. He desired for all workers of the world to unite and form a revolution. He wanted workers to control farms and factories instead of the landlords.

The Industrial Revolution inspired Marx to invent Communism as he despiced the way capitalism worked. He thought that workers were treated unfairly and in unsafe condition. The landlords became richer, while the workers became poorer; This made Marx unhappy and desired for all the workers to unite and form a revolution to control the farms and factories. He wanted workers to share wealth in this new idea of Communism. He wanted workers to have the power and everyone to be treated equally in Communism.