The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The Meji era came after Commodore Matthew Perry came and started rough housing the Japanese. Matthew Perry came from the U.S.A and started making threats about bringing more ships. This is how Matthew Perry got a trading agreement with Japan. This caused the Japanese to realize that they had to modernize, or else they will be taken over. The Japanese economy changed for the better. The government realized that there was no money coming for everybody, so they decided to stop Feudalism and start having a economy that benefited everybody. Now, instead of the Nobles making all the money, the peasants and everybody else can make money. The Japanese made great changes in their technology as well. Japan made better schools, they made a better government, they increased in knowledge. This led to many ships, and weapons to be built easily. They made factories and this caused mass production. Japan is geologically called an archipelago. An Archipelago is a large group or chain of islands.

Karl Marx and Communism.

Karl Marx was a revolutionist because he thought that the capitalists were hogging all the money while the workers were the ones who should be owning the companies and factories. He wanted everybody to be equal in ower and finacial levels. Communism is the political view where the common people obtain the wealth from the rich, so that everybody has the same amount of money. The reason why Karl Marx wanted cummunism to expand so that it could take over the world because he wanted the working class to gain control of the government. Karl Marx saw the working middle to low class man as a the " Good Guy's". He saw the rich factory owning capitalists as the guy's who were abusing the lower class's. The reason why he saw it this way was because the rich factory owners controlled everything and had to do little work, while the middle class had to do all the work.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

A man named Karl Marx disapproved of the fact that the wealthy used the workers by making them do cheap labor for long hours and would them hurt them if they did not work. This inspired the word communism because of the fact that he thought that everybody should be at the same financial level as everybody else. the word communism means common, he wanted everybody to be the same and wanted everybody to act the same as each other.