Japan Project

For my project i will study the technology of Japan. Now Japan is one of the countries that has the highest technology, I will focus on how Japan became the country leadership in technology, I want to search how Japan begin to use technology and how they change it to make it better over the years.

"Exploring Extremes"

When (and by whom) was the South Pole reached by an

On November 1912, the tent of Captain Robert Scott and his two companions found the body of Captain Scott wedged between those of his fellow explorers, the flaps of his sleeping bag thrown back, his coat open. His companions Henry Bowers and Dr. Edwards Wilson, were the last members of a fiveman team returning to their home base from the Pole.

0http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/scott.htm

When (and by whom) was the north pole?

On April 6, 1909. Commander Robert Edwing Perary, a civil engineer in the US Navy, claimed to have completed the journey in just 53 days. But he let alone a man that loosed 8 of his toes due to frostbite on previous expeditions, and for this reasons many believe that the first person to reach the north pole was Yorkshireman

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life/_and_syle/women/the_way_we_live/article6040069.ece

Who led an Expedition to summit Everest in 1924 and what happened to him? when was the summit finally reached for the first (documented) time?

George Mallory was the mountaneer who tried to reach the top of the Everest Mountain in 1924, it was his third attempt and he dissapear, in 1999 Mallory's body was found but clues did not provide conclussive evidence as to whether the summit was reached.

In 1985 Oscar Cadiach was the first person to climb the Mount Everest.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/British_Mount_Everest_Expedition_1924

I think people did it to prove that the humans can complete their goals, and that they wanted to test the human capacity for this kind of activities. Many people knows me, and they know that I'm too crazy, I would do something like this to prove people that everyone can do it, but I'm not too crazy to put my life on risk, so what I want to say is, NOOOOOOOOO

More than 100 years later, the World I live in stills and displays the Impact of the New Imperialism

After the Imperialism was invented, it stills in this days. For example, the Taliban where the Imperialist of Afghanistan, and they still are being the Imperialist of Afghanistan, because they conquered Afghanistan's believes, religions, government, economy, army, well, "everything,(until they were kicked out by the US), but the Taliban didn't helped Afghanistan they made it a worse place, because, they have bad government, economy, and "believes."

Also I think that USA is the imperialist of Central and Latin America but in a better, way, I watch the News a lot, and I have heard that US help on the economy and government of many countries of Latin America, for example Honduras, also I had known that US gave money, and better weapons to fight against the drug dealers. In the hospital from the city that I come from, the US send better machines, and also the city has American laws.

Positive Effects of the New Imperialism

But there also were Positive effects due to the New Imperialism, because the Europeans had better economy and technology, than the territories that they conquered, they imported their technology, as well as laws culture, and traditions, to those places.

Sometimes when I don't have something to do, I ask myself, "How would Mexico look like if the Spanish would not conquer south and central America?" and then I think, "Maybe, right now I would be fighting with other people for food, or I would be writing on stones, using hummers made of stones, making crazy calendars that no one would understand but me, or guessing what will happen on the future, or taking other peoples heart to offer it to the "GOD OF THE SUN" or making big sculptures, dancing for rain, and play to run and kill each other for the daughter of the Emperor of the Tribe" I think on all this crazy things and then I think that it was good for South America, Central America, and North America to be conquered by the Europeans, because they passed their technology to the Americas, as well as religion, and made this places on big and industrialized cities.

The same happened with all the other countries that the Europeans conquered, they made big industrialized cities from those places that were in bad economy, that lived like monkeys.

A good effect that was caused by Imperialism was that, even if the countries fought to conquer the territories, they help those territories by giving them medicines, weapons, a good established government, and a better life, because they didn't want more slavery on Africa and they protected them, from being conquered by other people, they also gave a good education to the people, they established schools, in fact they modernized this places.

Another good effect was that they increased the military forces of the territories, like the navy and the army,

Negative Effects of the New Imperialism

Imperialism had many Negative effects, because many European countries wanted to conquer the world they fought between them, and because they had better weapons and technology as well as medicine, they could survive to mortal diseases, and also because of this, Africans and Asians accepted Western control over them.
Europe had a special weapon called "Maxim gun" this was probably one of the best war machines, with this machines they killed people very fast, I think that without the Maxim gun Europe would not conquer parts of Africa. Even an English person said that whatever happens they have the Maxim gun and Africans don't.

Because Europe wanted to control African's life, many people were against this. Africans and Asians resisted their Expansion, and they fought against them even if their weapons were inferior to the European weapons. After a while, western educated Africans and Asians organized movements to take imperialist out of their lands.

Also because the Europeans controlled African's lives, they made them work almost for nothing, and they sometimes killed them, and in some regions the population declined.

Wars for the territory were everywhere, when the French empire wanted to control part of Africa, the Algerians rise in weapons and fought against the French, but this coasted many of lives for both empires. When the British wanted to conquer south Africa, the Boers fought against them, but unfortunately the British won because they had better armies and technology than the Boers.

What was "the New Imperialism"?

The New Imperialism was when the Europeans wanted to conquer most part of the world. European Imperialism was applied in the Americas when the Spanish conquered most of south and central America, and when the Portuguese conquered also a part of South America, and England and France conquered North America, they Imperialised this territories, because they controlled the economy, the culture(including their religions) and government of the land. But the Europeans wanted more, and they also wanted to conquer Africa and Asia.

Because of the Industrial Revolution, Europe increased its technology and economy, they also had a big military strenght, they abused from their power and "expanded their empire."
Manufacturers wanted more natural resources to produce their products, and sold therm in markets,they supported an oversea expansion.

Nationalism played a big role, France moved into West Africa, its rival nations Britain and Germany seized lands to halt further French expansion.
As the Europeans wanted more territory for them, they fought each other for land. Like every other events in history, Imperialism also had Positive and Negative effects.

In fact Imperialism was like and still as an Ideology where people wanted to dominate the world because they had better armies, government, economy than the territories that they wanted to conquer.