19th March 2015, Thursday

Hi! This is Cristina writing. This is last thursday's journal.

Lucía was supposed to write the journal today, but, as she had to take the exam, here I am.

Today in Social Sciences we have corrected the activities Paqui gave to us last day: 9 and 10 on page 41 and one she invented.

The one invented by Paqui was: "Write the names of the colonies included in every empire." The answer was:

- The British Empire owned colonies from North to South America, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rhodesia, Cape Colony, Nigeria, New Zeland, Canada and Guyana.

- The German Empire owned Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

- The French Empire owned Algeria, Tunisia, Western Africa, Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and the French Guyana.

- The Portuguese Empire owned Angola, Mozambique and some islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic.

- The Spanish Empire owned the Gold River (Sahara) and Equatorial Guinea.

- The Italian Empire owned Libya.

-The Dutch Empire owned Indonesia.

-The Belgian Empire owned Congo.

After correcting this, Paqui has showed a map to us with every colony, and she has showed it to us when we have corrected the other exercises, as well.

The question number 9 said: "What were the areas of expansion of the USA and Japan?" I have answered it: the USA expanded to the Pacific (in Hawaii and the Philippines) and the Caribbean (in Cuba, Puerto Rico and a strip of land in Panama). Japan expanded to the Eastern coasts of Asia: Kuril Islands, Korea and Formosa.

The last activity was "What was the Chinese reaction against the foreign intervention in its territory?": as China was coveted by many countries which wanted to control it and there were a lot of wars and revolts, the Chinese were obliged to open their country to the foreigners.

Here you have a picture showing the partition of Africa among the different colonist empires and another one including the colonies which belonged to every empire in the world.

I think it has been a very boring lesson, because I don't like much all this geography and maps thing.

Bye!