Today in class, we reviewed the countries origins that we researched the previous night. We started off by talking about China. As of about one week, China has had a new president, Xi Jinping. The former president that I included in my past blogs, Hu Jintao, is now retired. Next we talked about Afghanistan. Right now, the US is helping Afghanistan fight the Taliban, which is an Islamic Terrorist group. President Obama is planning on removing the 64,000 US troops currently in Afghanistan by the end of 2013. He hopes by then, Afghanistan will be able to fight of the terrorist group themselves. During our discussion about the UK, Mr. Schick was explaining how big the British Empire was back then. At one point, the British Empire was so large that it took up nearly a quarter of the earth. There was an old saying about the empire, which was: "The Sun never sets in the British Empire." The meaning behind the saying, is that the empire is so huge, that there wasn't one place in it that didn't have the sun shining.
Many of the other countries we reviewed were at one point in its history a part of the British Empire. Some examples include Iran, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.
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