Roots of Change
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
THE MASS MURDER/EXTERMINATION OF AROUND 1.5 MILLION ARMENIANS
Within the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909), a series of massacres throughout the empire meant to frighten Armenians, costing up to three hundred thousand lives and inflicted enormous material losses on a majority of Armenians; for the government wanted to discourage any ideas of governmental change. Then the young Turks, (the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP))
came to power...
Promising rights and freedoms to all......
Then they lost the Balkans, and World War 1 started..
Allowing them to systematically eliminate the Arminians under the cover of war..
Why?
The C.U.P thought that the Arminians, being mainly Christians would support the enemy and cause strife.
Around 1.5 million Arminians were killed, while being deported from there lands, systematic massacred, deliberate starvation and dehydration, slavery, and continuous brutalization, reducing its Armenian population to a frightened mass of famished individuals whose families and communities had been destroyed in a single stroke.
During the war some villages were about to escape behind the French, Russian, etc lines and the U.S. Eventually authorized the creation of the Near East Relief who helped every arminian they could out of there situation
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HERE IS A CITE FOR THE AFTER AFFECTS AND AFFECTS IN THE NOW
Opium is - a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used as a narcotic and in medicine as an analgesic.
Confucian China's attempts to exclude pernicious foreign ideas resulted in highly restricted trade. Prior to the 1830s, there was but one port open to Western merchants, Guangzhou (Canton) and they would accept silver. British and American merchants, anxious to address a trade imbalance, started to import the one product that the Chinese did not have but which an increasing number of them wanted: opium,and although the Chinese imperial government had long prohibited the drug except for medicinal use, the "British Hong" bought cheaply produced opium under the auspices of the British East India Company, the number 150 lb. chests of the narcotic being imported rising from 9,708 in 1820 to 35,445 in 1835.
By 1837 an estimated 12 million Chinese people were consuming or addicted to opium, the standard of living and trade efficiency fell; and between 1821 and 1837 the illegal importation of opium increased five fold, so Emperor Dao guang Sent officials in 1838, to confiscate and destroy all imports of opium. The consuming of opium was economically destroying the nation.
Then the fighting started... British merchants were not pleased at the officials and china for they arrested and confiscated 100,000's of crates of opium and sailors. Sadly China's navy and military were no match for the artillery and power of Her Majesty's and the war was won by the British. Therefore forcing the Chinese to sign the first of a series of "unequal" treaties that turned control of much of the coast over to the West as well as other restrictions on China's control.
THE SECOND WAR
The outbreak of the second war was almost inevitable because Chinese officials were extremely reluctant to enact the terms of the treaties of 1842-44(end of first war) and this time Russia, the U.S. and great Britain were the successors.
Photo by Edward Headington
At the end of it all china was left with Western trade and imports, as well as growing opium in there own fields. Also the history of a defeat.
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE REVOLUTION OF 1789
http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution
( here is an amazingly short yet accurate song on the French Revolution, the cause, and affects )
This created and brought change to not only France but to Europe as well, as described in the song, there government and rulings were made entirely by the peoples choice and reflected upon the ideas our western world holds so dear.
1988 PAN AM FLIGHT 103
DISASTER IN FLIGHT HISTORY
