Tuesday, 5th April 2016.

First of all I've to say thank you to Irene because yesterday she saved my life. I'll love you from here to the moon forever. ♥♥

And now yes, we start with the real contents. Today we have continued learning things about the Age of Empires. As you know (or maybe not), yesterday Paqui gave us a scheme for homework and today we have corrected it. She has asked some people, for example, Antonio and Lidia.

Our sheme has three parts but today we have included one more, we'll see in a minute.
The first part is the causes of the Age of Empires. There are three, the economic reasons (search for cheaper raw materiales, workers, etc and sell manufactured products), the demographic reasons (emigration and encouraged by the goverments to reduce the excess of poupulation) and political reasons (control of strategic places and gain international prestige).

Well, the big countries had big ambitions and tried to conquer as many amount of countries as they could. And now we arrive to the second part of the scheme: justification. The Europeans had to justify themselves and their acts, so they said that they were good and charitable people. The said that they had the responsability of civilizing the least developed territories of the colonies (that's the white man's heavy burden) but this was a bad excuse based on racism.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:The_white_mans_burden.gif

I think you should visit this webpage because there are a lot of pictures or drawings that can explain this much better, and they worth it: http://reverseracism.tumblr.com/post/123902807268/contra-puntal-take-up-the-white-mans-burden

The third part of the sheme is: Attitudes towards Colonialism but we haven't corrected it, so if you didn't do it yesterday, now you can because THIS IS THE HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY.

And finally but not less important, we have talk about Social Darwinism (this is the part we have added). 

https://plus.google.com/106787507362117129968/posts

As you know, this theory is based on Darwinism, and evolutive theory formulated by Charles Darwin. Some people adapted this theory to the society, and "classified" everybody into "races". Of course, some races were better than other, and the best of them was the white people.

They classified the people depending on their skin's colour or their eye's size. 

https://mstartzman.pbworks.com/w/page/34920056/Social%20Darwinism%20(sixth)
/// https://economicstheorywiki.wikispaces.com/Social+Darwinism+(Herbert+Spencer,+Andrew+Carnegie)?responseToken=f091388166969b744e1dc31a771933ad

Social Darwinists also defended eugenics. This is similar to selective breeding, they tried to obtain pure individuals by eliminating those who weren't "normal". 

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/586598563924934658

So today we have discussed about this. Some people in the class think that races in the human being exist, while some others think that this is not true. Well, I respect the opinion of everybody but from my point of view I think that races don't exist. I repeat: RACES DON'T EXIST.  Everybody, either from Russia, Morocco, China or Argentina have the same DNA but as they live in different places their skin, eyes, hair and culture change. And this is completely normal. Diversity is the most beautiful thing we can find in our world so shut up racists, I am a person, I don't have any race.

DO YOU WANT MORE? :)

NEW VOCABULARY:

Eugenics: Eugenesia

Flaw: Defecto

Flawless: Sin defectos

White man's heavy burden: La pesada carga del hombre blanco.

Faithfully: Lucía♥

Tuesday, 19th January 2016

Hi mates! It's Irene! Let's see what we' ve studied today in class,

Paqui has explained us about the following project that we have to do; we must do 4 videos including 5 questions in each one (6 in case of the last topic). This work is really too easy, we just have to explain the main topic helping with drawings about it. Te main topics are:

-Congress of Vienna
-Revolutionary ideologies
-1820, 1830, 1848 Revolution
-Unification of Italy and Germany (this video must include 6 questions, 3 about Italy and 3 about Germany)


DEADLINE-> 15th FEBRUARY

We can use websites like "Educanon" or programmes like "Windows Movie Maker "to edit our videos.
Here you have some ideas of videos:

Syria's War in 5 minutes: you can use maps and color them
The French revolution: Stop Motion is creative but harder
Enligthtened thinker's: this video is just what Paqui wants

or you can use images from Google, record the process drawing your pictures or use gifs! Good luck!


After the project we have started with second point of the unit, the Congress of Vienna.
We have studied the people who participated in the Congress of Viena, the decisions of the Congress, the main changes of the map of Europe and we have compared the differences between Europe during Napoleonic Empire and Europe after the Congress; we have copied the structure of this new scheme and we have to complete it for homework

                               CHRONOLOGY-> 1814-1815
                                       

CONGRESS OF   WHO PARTICIPATED?-> Talleyrand
    VIENNA                                                           Duke of Wellington
  (1814-1815)                                                         Gómez de Labrador                
                                     

                               MAIN PROBLEMS-> Hundred Years Empire
                                                                       Solution: Battle of Waterloo

                                                                       
                                                                          Restoration of absolutism
                               MAIN DECISIONS-> Reorganization of the map of Europe* -France
                                                                                                                                 came back                                                                                                                                                  to its bordies in 1791
                                                                                                                                -Two buffer states

                                                                          Creation of the Holly Alliance to stop revolution


                               CONSEQUENCES


* we have just studied these two points

                                             Europe during Napoleonic Empire

                                       
                                             Europe in 1789

VOCABULARY

SCROOGE- tacaño
BUFFER STATE- estado tapón
RHINELAND- Renania
SAXONY- Sajonia
EDIT- editar