decided that the Western merchants were “barbaric” and backwards‚ even though it was quite the opposite. That was‚ until the British brought opium to trade. Chinese trade with the British sky-rocketed and soon the elite Chinese were high off opium‚ unable to function properly. This resulted in the Opium War in 1839‚ blocking trading in Canton and destroying opium‚ ultimately losing the battle but angering the British. Chaos in China and Russia had begun as a result of
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Between 1750 and 1850 was really the age of revolutions. Including the big changes in political revolutions like the American and the French Revolutions‚ there were changes in land use for agriculture‚ transportation and also warfare....also known as Industrial Revolution...this had revolutionary changes in the economic system and global balance of power. Revolutions have seen most of the world within a deep interconnected economic system. To begin between 1750 and 1850‚ most European colonies became
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treaties and trades for China’s resources‚ the British made opium‚ an addictive drug to trade with instead of silver‚ which was what the Chinese wanted. But the Chinese didn’t want to trade their resources for opium‚ so two opium wars broke out‚ between China and the British‚ and the British came on top for both wars. Then the British forced the Chinese to continue trading with them so the British gained more resources and the Chinese gained more opium‚ and in addition the Chinese were paying taxes to the
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expand his territory and gain more profits. This conflicted with Great Britain and France interest in the Middle East’s markets. In China‚ the officials attempted to stop the importation of opium to keep western influences out of China. Great Britain‚ a large producer of opium‚ relied on China’s importation of opium as a large source of income‚ so they declared war on China. Great Britain’s highly superior military quickly won‚ and left China with a series of unfair treaties with the British which‚ of
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In the mid to late 1800’s‚ opium was a fairly popular drug on the market. It was the drug of trade and it was even more popular than alcohol. Opium dens sprung up all over and it became a serious problem. The addictive effects became unbearable. By 1874 to a new wonder drug called Heroin was invented to ease those who became addicted to morphine which is a derivative of opium. Heroin was believed to be a safe and non-addictive substitute for morphine. They were wrong and the heroin addict was born
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without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium‚ Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages
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China is one of the world’s four ancient civilizations with a time-honored‚ recorded history. The history of China reaches back over 5‚000 years. China covers an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and its continental coastline is 18‚000 kilometers. Its population is over 1.3 billion people. China has created a culture rich in art and philosophy. China is the home of the inventions of amazing products and technologies such as silk‚ papermaking‚ movable-type printing‚ gunpowder‚ and calligraphy
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increased their potency and abuse liability. 5. Users and researchers have discovered new ways of taking drugs so they reach the brain faster‚ thus increasing their abuse liability. For example‚ opium was used originally for medicinal and spiritual purposes. Once people discovered that opium created mental effects because of the way it manipulated the brain’s own natural chemicals especially endorphins‚ the body’s own painkillers‚ they used it to change their mental/emotional state. Legal
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on much the same as it had before‚ while in India the British tried to replace the Indian culture with their own. British influence in China began with the introduction of the opium drug. In England this drug was already widely in use‚ even among Christians. "William Wilberforce‚ the slave-trade abolitionist‚ took opium before making a long address. "To that‚" he said‚ "I owe my success as a public speaker." Clive of India‚ having established the security of the East India Company‚ took the drug
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the 19th century in the Qing dynasty‚ proved to be costly. Notably the biggest and most dangerous of the rebellions was the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion was so widespread‚ that the Qing considered it to be more pressing than the second opium war against the Europeans. The Taiping Rebellion had taken over 20 million Chinese lives over the course of the rebellion. Why did the Taiping Rebellion and other Rebellions during the middle of the 19th century happened? The rebellions throughout
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