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Today we started off by taking out the homework, which I did not do...then Ms. Separ gave us a hand out that we were not allowed to write on. The hand out was composed of 7 scenes and a epilog about European nation's economic status before the revolution and after the revolution. Before we started the scene acting, Ms. Separ yelled at Alex again for sleeping during class. After all the commotion, Ms. Separ finally assigned people to roles in the scenes, after the scenes were done we briefly went over them. For example the nations before the revolution mainly focused on gold and silver from the colonies, which made them extremely dependent on these colonies, and forced them to expand and create more thus starting Mercantilism. Some nations wanted to become self sufficient by making citizens only buy stuff within the nation. Then we started the economic systems after the revolution, which will see drastic changes. During this time the enlighenment was wide spread, which made Capitalism popular and created Laissez Faire(hands off theory). Some names that should be remembered is Adam Smith who was a enlightenment thinker and was the father of Capitalism, also Karl Marx who disagreed with Capitalism and created Marxism which was highly popular amongst the working class. But eventually Marxism turns into Communism which seems good with all the equality but is later on taken advantage of from the upcoming leaders. We ended the day after going over the epilog and we have no homework! =
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