First Liberian Civil War

The Opium Wars were a series of wars that took place between 1839 and 1860 although the fighting was not continuous and had brief times of non-fighting. The First war started in 1839 after a realized trade deficit on Britain's side with a high demand for Chinese goods including tea and silk with almost no demand for western good from China mainly because China was a self-sufficient nation and the fact that foreign trade was so tightly restricted. After a series of requests and demands from both…

The Treaty of Nanking was the first of the unequal treaties against the Chinese as the end result of the China’s defeats in the first Opium war. The Treaty of Nanking was signed on the 29 August 1842 to conclude the First Opium War of 1839-1842. The treaty ceded Hong Kong to the Great Britain as well as opening five treaty ports to the foreigner. China’s territories was completely being destroyed, and lost the independent status. For the western capitalist, the five treaty ports become the…

a little controversial, but by examining their interactions with China during the 19th century, it is apparent that this part of their history was selfishly corrupt and malevolent. This essay shall argue that for many years leading up to the First Opium War, Great Britain fully endorsed the smuggling of illegal opium into China; the goal being to increase revenues within India, and consequently of Britain itself. Despite knowing the harm that opium possessed towards the citizens of China, the…

The Opium wars were a frightful time for the Chinese people in their history. During the Opium wars, China experienced radical changes that left numerous dead yet considered modernization and entered the international trade market. Opium had first arrived in London where it was initially used for medical purposes. Trading with China demonstrated exceptionally beneficial for over a quarter century, until in 1835, China passed its first law forbidding the importation of opium when it turned out…

Assignment Romans Greek and civilization Unit 5 The Punic wars are series of three conflicts between the Carthaginian republic and the Roman republic; they last about a century. These wars mainly based on a conflict of interests between both Romans and Carthaginians. The first one wanted the Sicily that the Carthaginians controlled, and the last one to control Italy and the Mediterranean. Indeed historian related that at the beginning of the First Punic War, Carthage was a dominant power in the…

According to Arizona's Premier Drug Addiction Treatment Center, In the 18th century, Europe had great desire for goods and products created by the Chinese, but the Chinese were not as interested in European goods, like Europeans were for Chinese goods. This situation created a trade imbalance between these two countries. The only way to pay China back was with silver. In 1773 , Britain took over the Bengal Province in India which at the time was a large producer of opium.British decided to…

Punic war was the most devastating war that had to face Carthage. After the end of the first Punic war, Carthage managed to recover economically thanks to the choices of Amilcare, Asdrubale and especially Hannibal, who once became head of the Carthaginian army in Spain, with the siege of Segundo, began the war. "He invaded ever deeper inland and then besieged and conquered Saguntum (modern Sagunto, just north of Valencia), a long-time ally of Rome, in 219 BCE" (Cartwright, 2016). Once the war…

eastern Sierra Leone. Hundreds of children including Abu were forced by the Liberian mastermind Charles Taylor to fight with the rebels. With all of the drugs and alcohol that they are forced to take, Abu can’t remembered the first time that he killed. Charles Taylor, then President of Liberia, was charged with 11 counts of war offenses and crimes against civilization for the help to launch the Sierra Leone decade long civil war. Taylor is known for hypnotizing these child soldiers into…

The American Civil War was a conflict between Northern and Southern states of the United States between 1861 and 1865. The Valley of the Shadow archive was put together to tell the stories of the residents of Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania during the Civil War. From 1862 to 1864 Nancy Emerson of Augusta County kept a diary detailing her life during the war. In the year 1863, Rachel Cormany kept a diary of her life in Franklin County. Life in both counties during…

Dorothea Dix is an American social reformer with a huge impact of saving lives before and during The Civil War. In her early life, she opened a school for children including poor and neglected to help out on their reading and writing. Dix is more compassionate to teach the poor and neglected children, who can’t afford or able to make it to school, by coming to their houses because she felt the same connection during her childhood years under her strict and alcoholic father. Luckily her wealthy…