The Opium Wars

Answer: Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpodsand usedto produce heroin. The drug waws produce in, shipped from the East Indies to China by British merchants. This drug waws very addicted and had gotten many chinese on it in the early 1800's. This is how the Opium war started off, the Bristish opium trade in China started the world's very first drug in the 19the century, it was reffered as Anglo- Chinese war too.

The opium was introduce as a medicine to the Chinese to treat any diseases such as dysentery, cholera and diarrhea, it treated this diseases it was verty powerful and addicted. Howver then in 1700 Optium was introduce to the china as a drug to mix with tobacco and be smoked by the British. Chinese tea, sil became really popular inthe Western countries around the 18th century. The chinese were very independed they did not want or need anything from Great Britain or any other country.China was self sufficient, there was no other products to export to China so they decided to mix tobaco with Opium and promote smokingin China. Alot of opium was sold more than two million pounds every year to China The british and the Chinese went to war and the British end up killing alot of people. The Chinese realize that if they continue to have flourished trade then there economy will drop and they were gonna end up with no money and teh population was gonna drop to. The british won because of their advance technology and weapons and they trick the chinese too. They made the Chinese sign a treaty of