Social Sciences
Hello everybody!
Today in Social Sciences we have learnt about the types of colonies that exited during the second half of the 19th century. There were three types of colonies:
- Colonies of exploitation: they totally depended on the metropolis.
- Colonies of settlement: The had an autonomus goverment, but their froeign policy was controlled by the metropolis.
- Protectorates: In theory they were independent, because they had an indigenous origin, but they didn't have an independent foreign policy.
Then we have continue with the point D of the 2nd point of the unit "The scramble for África and Berlín Conference":
In less than 30 years all África was distributed among several Euroean countries. As there were opposed proyects of expansion there was a risk of confrontation in Europe and a conference in Berlin was called in 1885. The main decisions were:
- The country that occupied the coast of a territory could also seize the interior.
- Free navigation of the African rivers.
- Creation of the Congo Free State, given to king Leopold II of Belgium.
The consequences were:
All the continent was distributed between the Europeans. Only Liberia, Abyssinia and Morocco remained free.
That's all.
We have also copied some words on the glossary:
- Colonies of settlement: colonias de poblamiento.
- Belligerent: beligarante.
- Suez canal: Canal de Suez.
- Scramble: barullo, lio...
- Coveted: codiciado.
- Clumy: torpe.
- Rubber: caucho.
- Massacre: masacre.
- Heart of darkness: El corazón de las tinieblas.
Remember for next thursday to write on the notebook the name of the colonies included in every empire in this period and to do exercises 9 and 10 from page 41.
See you soon!
- 19th March 2015, Thursday
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- Thursday, 12th Of March
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- Friday 6th March 2015
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- 5th March 2015 ( Thursday )
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- Monday, 2nd Of March 2015.
Hello everybody! Today in our Social Sciences lesson, Paqui has started the class adding a brief paragraph about Austrian control to point 1 of the Unit 5 a brief paragraph about the situation of Italy and Germany before the Unifications. AUSTRIAN CONTROL:...
Social Sciences
Tuesday, 17th of March 2015
Hello everybody!
Today in Social Sciences we have learnt about the types of colonies that exited during the second half of the 19th century. There were three types of colonies:
- Colonies of exploitation: they totally depended on the metropolis.
- Colonies of settlement: The had an autonomus goverment, but their froeign policy was controlled by the metropolis.
- Protectorates: In theory they were independent, because they had an indigenous origin, but they didn't have an independent foreign policy.
Then we have continue with the point D of the 2nd point of the unit "The scramble for África and Berlín Conference":
In less than 30 years all África was distributed among several Euroean countries. As there were opposed proyects of expansion there was a risk of confrontation in Europe and a conference in Berlin was called in 1885. The main decisions were:
- The country that occupied the coast of a territory could also seize the interior.
- Free navigation of the African rivers.
- Creation of the Congo Free State, given to king Leopold II of Belgium.
The consequences were:
All the continent was distributed between the Europeans. Only Liberia, Abyssinia and Morocco remained free.
That's all.
Colonies in Africa during this period.
Source: http://www.itiscannizzaro.net/Ianni/booksweb/sitodarkness/papers/fabrizioanna.htm
We have also copied some words on the glossary:
- Colonies of settlement: colonias de poblamiento.
- Belligerent: beligarante.
- Suez canal: Canal de Suez.
- Scramble: barullo, lio...
- Coveted: codiciado.
- Clumy: torpe.
- Rubber: caucho.
- Massacre: masacre.
- Heart of darkness: El corazón de las tinieblas.
Remember for next thursday to write on the notebook the name of the colonies included in every empire in this period and to do exercises 9 and 10 from page 41.
See you soon!
- 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...
- Thursday, 12th Of March
Hello everybody! Today it's my turn to write the journal. At first, we have corrected all the exercises that Paqui gave to us the last lesson. The first exercise was about writing the main colonies every European power had. The British...
- Friday 6th March 2015
Hello class. First of all, I could not do the journal before because there are constructions in my neighborhood and the internet does not work at the moment, so I am doing this in a friend's house. Last Friday, the class started in a funny way because...
- 5th March 2015 ( Thursday )
Hello I am José Luis and this is my journal: Today in Social Sciences: The class s has been at third period and Paqui has started reading the phrases on the dry-erase board , the funniest one was C.Ronaldo's quote ( great philosopher ). And...
- Monday, 2nd Of March 2015.
Hello everybody! Today in our Social Sciences lesson, Paqui has started the class adding a brief paragraph about Austrian control to point 1 of the Unit 5 a brief paragraph about the situation of Italy and Germany before the Unifications. AUSTRIAN CONTROL:...