Creation of Middle East

Summary - During WWI, the Ottoman Empire which had sided with the Central Powers ruled over vast lands in the Middle East. The Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain and France control over the region which proceeded to carve out nations that make up Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. Eventually the Balfour Deceleration would help establish the Jewish state of Israel in Palestine. Blog Assignment - Choose a current conflict in Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Syria or Lebanon and discuss how its problems trace back to the end of WWI. Propose a diplomatic (non-violent) solution to solve the problem (example: creating a Palestinian state in Israel along specified boundaries...)

A major topic going on today is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After the horrors of the holocaust, people felt Jews should have their own homeland. Britian seeing how much they suffered promised them a homeland post World War II. Another reason was their sacred land was where Jesus was. Also it was their land previously so britain thought they should get it back. This land was taken from Arabics living in palestine and given to the Jews. The Arabs living their were angered and conflicts emerged because they felt they should not give land to the Jews because of what happened. A smart resolution is to give all the area around jerusalem to jews so they can live there. Another idea is to split the area in half and have the two groups take sides. If this fails then both groups should unite and make a country for themselves to ive in. If this works then everybody could live peacefully, and end the conflicts. That is how this conflict can be solved.

Czarist Russia

In Russia during the time the csars ruled, the nobility was the highest class in society. They live a luxurious and exstravegant life. Their loads of land came with almost 1 million slaves. They also owned plenty of other places. The Nobles did plenty with their time to to. They would hunt, fence, gamble. They also played cards and billiards. Csars the richest of nobles did anything they wished with their money. The noble also held very little political power over the Czars. The only problems the nobles worried about were falling into debt and paying the serfs for farming. The Tsar's biggest event was the grand ball that they held. This ball very expensive but at the same time elegant. The nobles would be against any idea of Revolution. One reason is they would have to pays serfs more and give them land for farming. Another would be is that they would lose their social status as a noble. that is what nobility was like in Russia.