The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Japan was separated for about two centuries;It had been locked away from the outside world. By 1615, after a century of civil war, the powerful Lord Tokugawa had defeated his enemies and declared himself Shogun, ruler of all Japan. Tokugawa divided society into four ranks: at the bottom were the merchants; then came the artisans; just above them were the farmers, who gave up half their rice harvest to those at the top, the Samurai. Matthew Perry was a Commodore who headed to Japan at the bay near yedo. When Matthew came, the people from Japan were facinated with his four ships he had brought. They were steamships, ran on coal and water. They called them ''Black ships". Japan was an archipelago which meant that is was made up of a chain of islands. Japan was well known because it was an archipelago. They industrialized well togethether because Matthew perry either asked them or wanted it to do it by force. He wanted something from Japan, since he supplied/introduced "the black ships". This is how they industrialized; even if it felt like they didnt have a choice. Commodore Perry knew that he had more advanced technology than the people from Japan. The Meiji Restoration was when an emperor from Japan wanted to learn the abilities or any improved technologies that were located in the west. He sent some of his people to a specific area alongside the west. Since he felt Japan was coming around really slow. He managed to gather studies from Europeans and American civilazations.This was passed on to other people from Japan. Eventually Japan had a banking system and a local fine government. Although back at the time they still relied on their Samurais and Shoguns. This was the Meiji restoration of Japan.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx had a totally different overview about the people during the Industrial Revolution. He didnt like the fact that the rich were becoming more wealthy and that the poor were becoming more homeless. Karl Marx's had an idea of communism. His new idea was that everyone should express themselves as equal individuals. Everyone should have equal rights, and equal amount of money. He wanted everyone to be United as ONE! Although before the civilization was split into two classes. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie were the ones that were the factory owners/or offered jobs. The proletariat were the ones that worked in factories.
Karl Marx believed that he had many followers and that they would support him. He actually became successful. Even though everyone would get equal shares in everything, People would start to get Real LaZY... Workers are taking advantage that by not doing anything they would still get paid. Karl Marx had a very good idea, but just notgood enough.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was A German who made a big change during the time of the Industrial Revolution. He hated the treatments of workers in Europe.
Conditions in European factories were very harsh and unsafe. Marx argued that workers, rather than landlords, should control factories and farms. He urged the "workers of the world to unite" in a worldwide revolution. Marx's ideas were known as Communism, a word formed for common. Workers would share wealth in a communist society. Marx wrote that wealth should be distributed "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." He was born a Jew, but his father converted the family to Christianity in order to get a job. Marx did not believe in god and thought workers were controlled by religion. He said, "religion is the opiate of the people." He soon died in 1883. Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial. Workers were often forced to work on huge collective farms and factory workers.