non-domestic rulers. Opium was also a major reason for the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Opium is a drug found in the Opium Poppy Plant and contains the major ingredient in heroin. The British were in possession of a very potent strain of Opium and illegally sold it to China. This cause most people in China to get addicted to Opium. This was detrimental to Chinese society because since everyone was always high on Opium nothing got done in China. Also when China refused to legally trade Opium with the British
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amounts of opium that they gathered from from India. Soon there after‚ the balance of payments had reversed. The Chinese were the ones trading the gold and silver‚ along with other goods for the opium. Opium is an addictive drug prepared from the opium poppy‚ used as a narcotic and in medicine as an analgesic. The Chinese were hooked! This caused a pandemic of drug abuse‚ and large economic chaos. In 1830‚ the Chinese government tried extremely hard to end the importation of opium. They sent a
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses Section 1: Beer: Beer was not invented‚ it was discovered. Exactly when the first beer was brewed is unknown but there was almost certainly no beer before 10‚000 BCE. The rise of beer was closely associated with the domestication of the cereal grains rom which it is made and the adoption of farming. Beer originated in the Fertile Crescent in Egypt and Mesopotamia. To beer drinkers in the Neolithic period‚ beer’s ability to intoxicate and induce a state of
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the plant is ripe the opium is harvested from the poppy. The pods in the opium are cut thinly with a blade and the raw opium is collected. The opium is placed into little tubs and is crushed so that it can be divided. The opium is then placed in to buckets of hot water. The buckets are then stirred with large sticks to remove any dirt like plant leaves or mud. Lime is added to the hot water to get the opium to dissolve and to reach a PH of 12. Following on from this he opium in the bucket containing
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Office: FSC 702B Opium – Catholicon or Toxin • Evidence suggests that more than 5‚000 years ago the properties of opium were known in the Euphrates River (幼发拉底河) delta. • Around 330 B. C.‚ Alexander the Great took opium to Persia and India‚ from where cultivation slowly spread eastward and reached China in about the 7th century (唐朝). 13th century‚ India The opium poppy Early history of poppy Opium – Catholicon or Toxin Opium is the dried latex (汁液) obtained from the opium poppy (罂粟)
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did not. This led to hostility between China and the European Countries Opium Wars Inflexible‚ close-minded (about commerce with Europe) Bad harvests‚ warfare‚ rebellions‚ overpopulation‚ economic disasters‚ and foreign imperialism contributed to the dynasty’s collapse. Manchu Dynasty was not able to control or adjust and get an efficient solution to China´s just arisen problems Opium Wars There was a high demand for China’s tea ceramics‚ and silks in Great Britain
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characterized by a loss of self-control‚ and that the disease is attributable to the drink‚ not the the drinker. The Christian religion encouraged consumption of alcohol‚ but condemned overindulgence. As the social view on addiction evolved‚ drugs such as opium‚ alcohol‚ nicotine‚ and caffeine‚ still raged in the 17th and 18th
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3 types of drugs that are made from nature Opium poppy Poppy is one of the most important medicinal plants. Traditionally‚ the dry opium was considered an astringent‚ antispasmodic‚ aphrodisiac‚ diaphoretic‚ expectorant‚ hypnotic‚ narcotic‚ and sedative. Poppy has been used against toothaches and coughs. The ability of opium from poppy to serve‚ as an analgesic is well known. Opium and derivatives of opium are used in the pharmaceutical industry as narcotic analgesics‚ hypnotics‚ and sedatives
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PEASANTS AND FARMERS Q1.Explain what the open field system meant to rural people in 18th century in England from the point of view of (a) A rich man (b) A labourer (c) A peasant women. Ans: Open field system Before the 18th century in large parts of England the country side was open‚ it was not partitioned into enclosed lands privately owned by landlords. Peasants: They cultivated strips of land around the village they lived in. Mixed quality of land: At the beginning f each
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in the works since the beginning of drug use in America. One of the earliest forms of drug abuse in the United States was with opium. Opium was seen as a resource for pain relief. European explorers and settlers brought crude opium or dissolved opium extract to North America. Many people‚ including one of our great nation’s forefathers‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ used opium as
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