The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The reason Matthew Perry got what he wanted was because the Japanese were amazed by the boats Perry and his man were sailing. They were so amazed that they gave him what he wanted. Which was coal,food,water. He just bullied them by anchoring 26 miles away from the capital city with sails down and a Naval force that was far greater than any other Japanese war ship. They had no choice but to give in to his demands. A year later in 1854 the treaty was signed to open two ports. With the amazement of the technology the Americans had, the Japanese sent men all around the world to find out new ideas so that the could keep up with the world change in technology.

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. 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's death in 1883, Friedrich Engels used Marx' work and published the next 2 volumes of Capital.