Opium Wars. Emperialism in China

This war was one of the very first drug wars and took place in chinait was Known as the Opium War and it also known for the Algo- chinese war. The drug was produced and shipped in from the East indies to china by the British. A lot of people were gettinq adiicted like the chinese got addicted to this drug in the early 1800s. When opium was first introduced to china everything started to get used for diseases like dynestry, cholera, and also diarrhea. when the people started to try the drug they couldnt leave it.

The britisg nduring 1700 discovered that opinum will be mixed with tobacco to be smoked.During the 1800 chinese green tea became popular that everyone started trying it and all the western countrys try it. When the chinese government realized that the bristish merchants weres sellinq the opinum drug to the chinese.

Until 1838 the opium drug was restricted from trade , The emperor wrote a letter to Queen Victoria asking why it was illegal in their country but selling china drugs. The letter unfortunately was never delivered directly to the Queen. Since the chinese warriors thought that the queen never acknowledged the letter than it the warriors thought that it challenged them. Chinese officials destroyed the opium drug and banned english man from china. China was ready to attack the british.

Film Lesson: Mountains Of The Moon

In the movie "Mountain of the moon" it was about dis two europeans named Richard Burtun and John Speke were two explorers looking for the source of the Nile river. They wanted to seach for the river, and they didnt give up until they find it. On their journey they had many problems. They meet africans that had never seen white people before so the Africans gave the European explores a hard time.

Some of the Africans treated the white people really bad. THe Europeans faced death not only from african tribes but from such things as malaria, yellow fever, dirty water, and lack of food. The reason why it strange that the source of the nile river was named after a white british queen because the source of nile river is in a african colony not in british but it should be named after the one that founded it. The source of the nile river which is now named Victoria is the 3rd most largest lake in the world. The advantage that the European explorers had was that they had guns back then it was the most dangerous weapon they used it to keep thgeir enemies away but now in this new world its like nobody cares who has a gun. So that help the European conquer the africans because the only thing the africans had were spears and the Europeans had guns.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project to have and understanding of how it worked. I learned that Europe during this time was in a frenzy to capture land. Also i learned shipping routes were important in trading because without them getting spices would take a long time and would be very expensive. It was shown that Spain basically had complete control of South America except for Brazil which the Portuguese owned. I also saw that England had colonies all over the world. They owned their own places in North America, Africa, and Asia.