The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The Meiji Restoration of Japan was number of events that led to changes in Japan. There political and social structure was changed. Japan is an archipelago, which basically means a group of islands near each other. Japan had cut them selves out of the world not knowing how advanced they were. There technology were advanced not even knwoing it, until one day Matthew Perry came. Matthew Perry had arrived at Japan with a simple steamed powed boat. this was modern technology to him. But since Japan had cut off on trading routes and all they had never seen this type of technology. that was when there eyes had opened. they then reliezed how far behind they were. Perry had treated them unfairly and cruel. Thinkin that they were not advanced they tried everything they could to advance in everything they could. They never wanted to open up to the world by trades but Perry opened them up and made the trade.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx's was a very important person in the industrial revolution that helped out in getting people in it there rights in working. He was a German philospher who helped in the idea of communism. He was born on May 5 , 1818. He though it was unfair that the land owners did whatever they like to the workers. That they gave them harsh conditions , and they got fired sometimes for no reason.

He did whatever possible to get his word out about communism and to get the workers to have controll over there work. He created workers united which gave the workers a fighting chance if they thought they were being treated unfairlly since there are all these new jobs and all this new technology no one really knew if they were working unfairlly. People needed someone to lead them threw this unfairness and Karl did just that by spreading his word.

He spread his word but died on March 14 1883. Even tho he passed away his word about getting workers togther and united was spreading more and more and was put into play. In some places the people who supported him where punished hard while others did anything they could to get there power to get paid as much as they are supposed to get paid and it worked.