drug of Opium. When opium was first introduce in China it was like any other drug‚ addictive and harmful to the human body but the Chinese weren’t aware of the opium negative effects. Opium the narcotic drug is derived of from immature seed pods of poppy plants. Opium was used for pain relieving‚ it was one of the first drugs able to relieve pain before morphine was invented‚ and morphine is safer drug then opium and they both came from the same plant. Before the opium war‚ foreign trade to Western countries
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Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)
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More specifically‚ opium addiction which was the cause of the opium war opium war Was a war between the british and chinese the british didn’t like the chineses trading terms and wanted more tea ‚silk‚ and porcelains but the chinese thought trade would ruin their culture and had no need for anything the british made. But opium introduced first as remedy for pain and only taken sparingly eventually turned to illegal recreational use and from there it
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Notice for Scholars This monograph was originally published as the September 1972 issue of Southeast Asian Perspectives‚ a publication of the American Friends of Vietnam‚ an organization which was formed in 1955 and prior to its demise two decades later included on its board such diverse figures as Senators John F. Kennedy and Mike Mansfield‚ Socialist Party Chairman Norman Thomas‚ and Journalist Robert Shaplen. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Please note that in formatting
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Opium war From the 18th century Asia became a victim of European imperialism. By the 19th century Britain had acquired control over India and Burma and France controlled indo-china and the Dutch gained stronghold in Indonesia. By this time USA along with other European nations began paying serious attention towards eastward nations like china and Japan. Their aim was to open these Asian nations as a field for their economic expansion. Predominant in trade between the western countries and
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The Opium War‚ also called the Anglo-Chinese War‚ was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered. In European history‚ it is perhaps the most sordid‚ base‚ and vicious event in European history‚ possibly‚ just possibly‚ overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. By the 1830’s‚ the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth
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General who brought an end to the punic wars. Scipio’s father held the consulship in one of the most critical years of Rome’s history‚ 218 B.C. While with his father during a battle on the Ticinus‚ a young Scipio made his first mark on history‚ seeing that his father was wounded and cut off by the enemy‚ he charged at the enemy cavalry and saved him. Scipio africanus was an outstanding military leader who not only defeated hannibal but also ended the second punic war.+ Scipio was born into one of ancient
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and positive impact. Salmon‚ E. (1960). The Strategy of the Second Punic War. Greece & Rome‚ 7(2)‚ 131-142. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/641546 In the article the author Salmon argues that the strategy of the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War must be prepared from the end of the First Punic War. In the author’s opinion‚ the Carthaginians are making a basic structure of revenge strategy when they lose the first war‚ and Spain is very important for this strategy. The Carthaginians
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blame for the Second Punic War Hannibal. Both they and Hannibal can be seen to share the responsibility for Carthage’s defeat in the Second Punic War. Hannibal’s quixotic plot to attack Rome without a veritable intention to destroy her left Carthage stranded in a war that would ultimately turn against her. However‚ the circumstances and misfortunes faced in a war on foreign soil against the might of Rome can at times be seen as beyond Hannibal’s control. Hannibal’s overall war strategy in Italy‚
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Prior to the Punic Wars‚ Rome was almost an exclusively land-based military. Their army was also made up of mostly citizen who enters into military service voluntarily who were well-trained to fight closely united. Carthage’s military system was more well-balanced to such
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