Sunday, March 6, 2011

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3.
  1. How countries just took control over colonies.
  2. How a company could control a colony.
  3. How Ethiopia expanded.
    2.
    1. Companies taking control of colonies.
    2. How Ethiopia let the king's son come back and take control after being a prisoner for a couple years.
      1.
      1. Couldn't a colony deny letting a company control them and trade with who they want?

Ghandi Quote

    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” I like this Quote, it makes sense to me. It is basically saying if you have any faith in God you shouldn't worry because the faith you have should be he has your very best interest in mind and wouldn't let anything that you can't handle happen to you. So you don't have to worry if you believe in god because god will take care of you. Also if you worry it is just going to stress out your body.

Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is a waterway that connects the Mediterranean and Red sea. Today Egypt has control over the waterway. About 15,000 ships pass through the Suez canal in a year, maybe a little bit more. Today the Suez canal is extremely important, it is mainly used to transport oil. If we had to go around all of Africa our oil would be way more expensive then it is now. So it is pretty important.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857

It began with mutiny of sepoys of the British Eats India Company's army. It erupted other mutiny's.  There was a lot that caused the rebellion but the one that really set it off was that the British gave the sepoys weapons but to load them they had to bite open the packaged ammo and the package was made out of cow and pig fat which is against the Hindu's and Muslim religions to eat those animals. They rebelled for about a little over a year but The East India regained power again.

Protectorate

A Protectorate was a way an empire controlled a colony. There were a couple different ways they could control a colony but a protectorate is a country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power. An example would be when Britain established a protectorate over the Niger River Delta. It was good because the country being the protectorate didn't have to be there, but it was also bad because there was a lack of independence for the colony.

Imperialism

Imperialism helped the world by giving other colonies the chance to learn a new culture, or get a new government. It also gave us new goods, new places to trade and get the goods. It also helped out in travel by getting a new water way around Africa. Some of the good things could also be considered bad, like colonies learning new cultures might be good to some but the way it happened wasn't good, they were forced to and some find that disrespectful and they were not happy with it at all. Same with the government, some might now not of wanted a new government, and lose power to there territory. The goods part wasn't good because we basically forced them to get the goods and we took it from them to use with trading. The waterway made it worse cause it made it easier for countries to get into Africa and take over a territory.

Evolution

Evolution is considered an advancement in science. Personally i don't believe in it, but it's still considered it. Evolution was the idea of people, evolving into what we are today. Supposedly we derived from monkeys, and monkeys evolved into cavemen, which later on evolved into us, there is a bunch of different ideas on how we evolved but that is the most common one. Charles Darwin came up with this theory. It made people completely change their thoughts, it especially was a complete turn around from what everyone was used to with believeing in god and everything.