opium war- imperialism in china

The opium war all started with a trade between the british and china, it was the very first drug war in the 19th century. Some people refer to as angelo-chinese war, opium is made from a juice of poppy seapods and it would later be produced into heroin. Back in the 18th century, Opium is regulary used as a medicene, by the 1800's the black market changed it into a drug which cause millions of people from china to get addicted. Commissioner Lin Zexu had battled the problem of drug use in the provinces of Hubei and Hunan, and he now attempted to eliminate opium. He blockaded the foreign community, stopped trade, ordered Chinese servants to leave, arrested a leading foreign dealer, and demanded that the merchants surrender their inventory of opium. When the war began, the chinese were no match for the britsh due to the military poorly trained. The treaty of nanjing had to make china give up opium and hong kong to the british.

Mountains of the moon

One of the hardships that the Europeans faced is that they had to fight for their lives. People got diseases, people died they had very little water.It was strange because africa is a black country and the queen is a white woman.They were more civilized the africans had spears and the europeians had guns so we had better weaponry thats why it was easy to conquer africa.

Imperialism Project

It was to show the countries that the Europeans conquered in parts of the Americas, and Africa. It showed the divisions of the countries in those continents. We also showed the shipping routes and what they traded to each other. I learned that many countries were conquered by various European countries such as Great Britain and Spain. I also learned things they traded such as Gold and Silver. I learned that slavery was also involved in Africa and South america. Some diseases were spread in many different countrys near South America causing half of the population decreasing.