The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Before Japan began modernizing their country, they didn't allow other countries to negotiate with them. In 1853, four American steam ships came to Japan by U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, and he wanted the Japanese to open their doors to other countries. The Japanese were scared because of the ships being powered by steam, and they all carry cannons and rifles. Either they do it or Perry will have to force them. But then the Japanese became impressed of how the ships don't need any sails.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a communist, and most of his ideas were based of that. The three volumes of Capital were all communist ideas. When Marx was working with Friedrich Engels, he was already a communist and was interested in the ideas Marx came up. By 1844, Marx became a communist and doing that caused him and Engels to be expelled from Paris. In 1845, he and Engels both moved to Belgium and worked on more communist ideas. Their famous work that was published was The Communist Manifesto of 1848. As a communist, Marx had been arrested and got expelled from Belgium. King Louis Phillipe convinced Marx to come back to Paris, and then he went to other countries and they expelled him in most of them. He finally settled in London, published his first volume of Capital, and died over there in 1883. After his death, most of his communist ideas were still used but not in many countries.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx is a German philosopher who lived during the Industrial Revolution. Marx is a communist and all of his writings caused him to be expelled from different countries, which includes Belgium and France. His reaction to the Industrial Revolution was serious because of the political economy and polution from the factories. The negative effect during that time was Child Labor. It was because they had to work for 16 hours, they were only allowed one break a day, and they weren't able to go to school. With the help of Friedrich Engels, he published the first volume of Capital. This talks about his view of capitalism and his opinions of that and his own work. Marx stated in an essay that he wrote in 1875 that dictatorship would work better. After Karl Marx' death in 1883, Friedrich Engels used Marx' work and published volumes 2 and 3 of Capital. The polution from the factories were bad that this led to the beginning of Imperialism, because the goods had to be made with natural resources.