It's only about a twenty year period but a LOT went down... Kinda seems like the world started to fall apart ':)
Soooo... We're going to spend a great deal of time in Journeyman stepping away from American History. But don't worry, you'll still learn plenty in Apprentice and Masters.
Please sign up for a country to present on
Please skim over the information of countries you did not sign up for but pay most attention and do some of your own research for the one you do sign up for! It's alright if we double up.
Sign up away!!
Russia:
Watch this video about Alexander III (the Third). He was the leader of Russia at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGCzmjwfSSs
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were times of crisis for Russia. Not only did technology and industry continue to develop more rapidly in the West, but also new, dynamic, competitive great powers appeared on the world scene: Otto von Bismarck united Germany in the 1860s, the post-Civil War United States grew in size and strength, and a modernized Japan emerged from the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Although Russia was an expanding regional giant in Central Asia, bordering the Ottoman, Persian, British Indian, and Chinese empires, it could not generate enough capital to support rapid industrial development or to compete with advanced countries on a commercial basis. Russia's fundamental dilemma was that accelerated domestic development risked upheaval at home, but slower progress risked full economic dependency on the faster-advancing countries to the east and west. In fact, political ferment, particularly among the intelligentsia, accompanied the transformation of Russia's economic and social structure, but so did impressive developments in literature, music, the fine arts, and the natural sciences.
Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century, Russia's economy developed more slowly than did that of the major European nations to its west. Russia's population was substantially larger than those of the more developed Western countries, but the vast majority of the people lived in rural communities and engaged in relatively primitive agriculture. Industry, in general, had greater state involvement than in Western Europe, but in selected sectors it was developing with private initiative, some of it foreign. Between 1850 and 1900, Russia's population doubled, but it remained chiefly rural well into the twentieth century. Russia's population growth rate from 1850 to 1910 was the fastest of all the major powers except for the United States. Agriculture, which was technologically underdeveloped, remained in the hands of former serfs and former state peasants, who together constituted about four-fifths of the rural population. Large estates of more than fifty square kilometers accounted for about 20 percent of all farmland, but few such estates were worked in efficient, large-scale units. Small-scale peasant farming and the growth of the rural population increased the amount of land used for agricultural development, but land was used more for gardens and fields of grain and less for grazing meadows than it had been in the past.
(bonus points if you mention War and Peace)
India:
I encourage you to look up india on your own :)
Africa (yes, I know it's multiple countries)(not Egypt):
1880 CE
The first Anglo-Boer War occurs between British colonisers and the Boer settlers from the Transvaal Republic.
1881 CE
The Madhist war in Sudan was one of the most serious anti-colonial rebellions of its time. After heavy casualties, the war ended in Britain’s favour, and led to the establishment of the colonial entity the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Administration.
1883 CE
The first Franco-Hova War occurs, during which Madagascar is invaded by the French. The war resulted in the ceding Antsiranana in the north to France and a large payment to the heirs of Joseph-Francois Lambert, with whom the Lamberts charter was controversially signed by Prince Radama II in 1855. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Tamatave in 1886, which gave control over Malagasy foreign policy to the French.
"Afrikakonferenz" by Gartenlaube 1884
1884 CE
Improvement of medicines and inventions, such as the machine gun and the steam boat, opens for the European conquest of the interior of the African continent. In 1884, the Berlin Conference is held to divide Africa between the various colonial empires. This begins the scramble for Africa, a decade of rapid conquest by various European powers of the African continent. Ethiopia is the only part of Africa which remains independent.
1895 CE
Italy invades Ethiopia, attempting to create a colonial state. After about a year of conflict, Ethiopia emerges victorious.
The second Franco-Hova War occurs, with the intention of the French to bring the island completely under its protectorate. Starting with the seizing of Tamatave, the French Army marched to Antananarivo (the capital) under General Duchesne. A treaty was eventually signed making Madagascar a full Protectorate of the French Government.
1899 CE
The Second Anglo-Boer War occurs and becomes known as the most destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history.
(boer war is a bit of a tongue twister :P)France (I only put this down to discuss Louis Le Prince):
Learn about Monet!
And Van Gogh!
Annnnndddd.... LOUIS LE PRINCE
louis-le-prince-created-the-first-ever-moving-pictures/
I cannot explain why I love this man so much?? Is it the mysterious disapperance??? That he created the camera before Edison??? I don't know. But I just think he's neat
Japan:
Read about Japan
Study and learn on your own :)
Mexico:
In 1865 the US civil war ended and they US govt demanded that France withdraw its troops from Mexico. The French were also threatened by the growing power of Prussia and they were forced to leave. Without French troops to support him Maximilian was in a hopeless situation. His army was defeated in battle at Queretaro in 1867 and he was captured and shot.
Mexico became a republic again under president Juarez. In 1876 Porfirio Diaz staged a coup and became dictator.
Under Diaz some economic progress was made and the population grew rapidly. (By 1910 it was 15 million). Railways were built and mining boomed. Mexico exported sisal, rubber, cochineal, coffee and sugar.
However in the late 19th century many Mexicans continued to live in great poverty and their resentment eventually boiled over into revolution.
In the early years of the 20th century Diaz lost support. In 1910 a Presidential election was held. Francisco Madero stood as a candidate against him. However Diaz imprisoned Madero and won the election with a huge majority. Madero escaped to Texas where he denounced the election as fraudulent and called for a rebellion
Egypt:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/egypt/
There we go! I'm excieted to see everyone in journeyman!
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