Ghandi's Impact

In the 1930's, Ghandi definitely had the biggest impact on the world. His effects were felt incredibly at his greatest hights of peaceful power, but is also still felt today. One of his biggest triumphs, for example, is incredibly convincing Great Britain to release India to home rule. His peaceful impact was felt strongly in England, the US, and may other countries alike. Ghandi's introduction of peaceful resistance to get what you want, has been one that has influenced many throughout the world. His quote "any country would rather be governed by their own bad governmens than by the good government of an alien country" has even effected me on a personal level, in my views of the war in Iraq, and in movements within the U.S.. Ghandi was definitely extremely influential to the government, and the people in the early 1900's.

WWI

Hullo! I am a seventeen year old white lad from Canterbury, England. I'm very eager to fight in this war, because everyone else is, but I'm unsure exactly what I'm fighting for. I know it's very important to defeat the German's, and to fulfill our duties in the Triple Entente, and to elp those from France and Russia. My family back home is in the middle class, and were proud for me to go, but will be even prouder when I return.

Unionization for female factory workers

There are more advantages than disadvanages for a woman with the early unionization efferos in the early 1800's. Some advantages include organizing the garment workers and textile workers, and also, in working for protective labor legislation for women. Because of unions, there were better factory working conditions for all. The woman's union also serves as a support group for women, and it allowed them to transcend the hostility from men who disagreed with their involvement. The main disadvantage was that things were equal for all women in the union. While that may sound good, it also means that if one woman gets paid poorly, they all do.
IN all, however, I believe that there are definitely more advantages than disadvanages in unionization for women. In my opinion, it was one of the best occurances for women in the 1800's in terms of jobs.

French Revolution: Peasants

Us peasants got te ye ole brunt of a lot of revolutionaries. We peasants were the ones trying to get a better society put into place for ourselves, and instead we wound up being prosecuted for it! We put one of our best men in charge, and instead of helping us, he turned on us and began to use his guillotiene to chop off our yo ole heads! Robes Pierre was at first a good elader for us and reformed the government how we want to with the dismantling of a monarchy. But in the end, he was a terrible leader, and we couldn't get any satisfaction until we chopped the head off of him! Our revolution wasn't very successful for us at first, but I have the feeling that in a couple hunred years, it'll lead to some fair ruling.

Enlightenment Monarchs

Maria Theresa of Austria

*Scoreboard on a scale of 1-10

1. Cultural: 8

Unlike many rulers over time, Maria Theresa truly cared about the people that she rules, which earned her an 8 in my scorebook in cultural reform. She thought highly of inoculation and the fight against smallpox wince it had claimed so many lives in her rule. Maria Theresa also fought strongly against infant mortality and devoted much time to the health of those in her empire.

2. Educational: 6

This woman of the Habsburg Dynasty had a 40 year reign that was during the same age as the Enlightenment, and naturally placed a lot of emphasis on education for herself and for others, but only to a certain extent. Education, trade, religious toleration, the emancipation of the agricultural population from feudal burdens were all topics which she agreed upon, however, only to a certain extent. She would favor them, however only on the distinct condition that nothing was to be done to weaken the bonds of authority. She knew how to run a good empire!

3. Legal: 5

In legal policies, Maria Theresa was rather traditional and outstandingly crude. Any thing she allowed or did not all had to do with the weakness or strongness of the empire, and would not permit anything to occur that threatened her in any way. She, therefore, did permit legal torture in fear that if she did not, her empire would be crumble.

4. Political:8

Maria Theresa was a very smart lady by political means. She took advantage of her children and their marriages, uniting man empires as people usually did of this time to gain in aspects of politics and military primarily.

5. Military: 10

Undoubtedly, going along with the nature of Maria and her disagreements with things that threatened the empire, she foun the army to be a very important thing. She raised the amount of people in the army more than 200% and increased taxes so the goverment would always have money. She was a harsh and strict, while also having great humility in other situations, and she definitely looked out for the livlihood of herself and of her empire.

Louis XIV

Louis XIV is a ye ole wonderful king to us commoners. He is kind and devoted, and he has definately made our lives a lot better! Now we can go down to all the shoppes and not be afraid of being beheaded or catchins some fatal disease. Our King Louis XIV is strong in his ruling, and very fair, which causes us all to put great trust in him. Our King turned my homeland, France, into a place that people actually wanted to live in, and he settled much war. His image should be recalled of one as glory and greatness and is truly the best King we've ever had. Our King Louis XIV was never doubted in his righteousness to be king, which I believe is why he has ruled all over all of us so well. It is nice to finally have a rightful king and to see that end of a war that lasted for 100 years! So indeed, all hail King Louis!

The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War was a religious war fought from 1618-1648 iin involved a dispute between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. It actually included 3 wars, The War of Polish Succession 1733-1739, The War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748, and The Seven Years' War 1756-1763. It began as disputes between Protestants and Catholics but later developed into a war involving most of Europe, especially the Hasburg Family, including Philip II, and the Bourbons. The Thirty Years war war fought mostly by mercenaries, and was very destructive to the empire. In fact, many empires including Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Wurzburg and Palitinate lost more that 50% of their population and many others lost high numbers as well. The 30 Years War ended with the treaty of Munster, part of the Peace of Westphalia.