Opium den

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 possibility of substantially increasing their wealth was too good of a chance for Britain to pass up, and so they went out of their way to empower their merchants to smuggle opium into 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…

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 start using opium as a way to dismiss the trade imbalance between Britain and China. This caused opium addiction across China and in 1839 opium brought in by British ships was burned. (Sally Robertson) As we can see, morphine has been on the face of…

Even though stimulants and depressants can seriously harm someone, many people decide to use them because, they assume that they need them to survive. The question of all questions, is why do they feel like they need it? Do they not care about their life, or do they just want to harm themselves? These are the types of questions that I am sure everyone wants to know! The sad thing is, these are some questions that won’t always be answered. Let’s begin. What exactly is a stimulant? I am so glad…

The First Opium War since 1839 until 1842 is otherwise called the Opium War and as the Anglo-Chinese War, this war was battled in the middle of Britain and China over their clashing perspectives on strategic relations, exchange, and the organization of equity for outside nationals. In the 17th and 18th hundreds of years, the interest for Chinese products especially silk, porcelain, and tea in the European business made an exchange unevenness on the grounds that the business sector for Western…

country were headed to. From doing research I would say that the decline of china would have to be caused by the western powers being involved in china. Some of the causes that the western power did to make China have its decline would include the opium wars, the May 4th movement and lastly the rebellions in china. All three of these had some effect on how china…

In this paper i will be discussing some major events of the taiping rebellion,and the opium wars.Also conditions in china that lead to these wars, and the outcome of both the opium wars and taiping rebellion the first opium war started in(1839-1842) with china trying to ban opium trading. not long after the first opium war the taiping rebellion(civil war) broke out in(1850-1864) in china. ought between qing dynasty and hong xiuquan, when china tried to seek persecution towards a christian sect…

European powers that it indirectly led to the Opium Wars, which impacted China for years to come. There was a great request for Chinese silk and porcelain, but Britain did not have adequate silver to exchange with the Qing Empire (Ebrey, Buddey 32-33). Henceforth, a system of bargaining centered around opium was made to resolve this issue of trade, but disagreements among the Qing and British over the drug eventually heightened into the notorious Opium Wars (Lin Zexu 50). This is historically…

China and the Ottoman Empire both faced a variety of challenges during the 19th century that later left them vulnerable to Western influence in the 20th century. The Ottoman Empire and China had large population growth, but unlike Europe, neither country industrialized and it left them with little food. They also faced issues when it came to centralized power, both countries transferred their consolidated power to local authorities; the gentry for China and the local warlords in the Ottomans.…

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…