Hello, and welcome to Canada Uncovered. In this series, we’ll be exploring Canadian history by altering key events to examine the effects; asking “why” the foundations of our country, such as the house of commons and the senate, exist, and how they came to be; and comparing our behavior today to the actions of the past. But tonight, a man plays a guitar in the dark, I look at a llama, and we waste time on Twitter when we are supposed to be presenting this programme! Onto our actual topic, Louis
them. Herein lies the way to self-strengthening.’1 Following Feng Guifen’s [the innovator the movement] view on Self Strengthening, why then did the the movement fail? The period of 1860 through to 1864, between the end of the Third War with the West and the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, were
Effects of Imperialism How did imperialism effect the areas of Africa, China, and India? Imperialism is the act of a strong nation overtaking a smaller, weaker nation. There are many reasons why imperialism occurs, including motives from an economic standpoint, as well as just a way to show and achieve power. There were both positive and negative effects to imperialism, with the loss of many original citizens, but gaining different ways of life through cultural diffusion. For instance, many European
centuries drove European governments to seek new sources of revenue at a
started towards the middle of the nineteenth century. British interest blossomed into excitement over literary discoveries in Arab culture, such as the sixteen volumes of the Arabian Nights, which were printed in Richard Burton's translation between 1885 and 1888. The Arab counterpart of these British sentiments was respect for the British institutions. During World War I, T.E. Lawrence, a British agent, met Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who was the head of Arabs in the Moslem holy city of Mecca, to come
Palestinian Liberation Organization attacked the Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel in Nairobi killing 15 people, most of them Kenyans. In 1998, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and the one in neighboring Tanzania were bombed. According to official Kenyan government figures, 213 people were killed in the blast that gutted the U.S. Embassy building in downtown Nairobi. That included 12 American workers and 34 of their Kenyan colleagues, called "foreign service nationals [FSNs]." More than 4,000 Kenyans were
The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of its
Chapter 4 Colonialism and the African Experience Virtually everything that has gone wrong in Africa since the advent of independence has been blamed on the legacies of colonialism. Is that fair? Virtually all colonial powers had “colonial missions.” What were these missions and why were they apparently such a disaster? Did any good come out of the African “colonial experience”? Introduction Colonization of Africa by European countries was a monumental milestone in the development
precision. Experimentation was the method and mathematics the language of a powerful coherent body of knowledge called classical physics. For a few years before and after the turn of the century, the world was taking a breather from war and rebellion. The monumental achievements of science, technology, and industry
1895–1900 * 2.3 Munich, London and Geneva: 1900–1905 * 2.4 The 1905 Revolution: 1905–1907 * 2.5 Return to exile: 1907–1917 * 3 The February Revolution * 4 The April Theses * 5 The October Revolution * 6 Forming a government * 6.1 Establishing the Cheka * 6.2 Failed assassinations * 6.3 Red Terror * 6.4 Civil War * 6.5 1920-22 * 7 Retirement and death * 7.1 Funeral * 8 Politics and world revolution * 8.1 Stance