The Opium Wars

During the Opium War, Britian was fighting against China for the right to sell opium to them. Britian always wanted to trade with China for their tea which was very valuable in Britian. Britian controlled India so they found use of a drug which was opium. They first gave it for free to China and later when they could not stop the use of the drug they wanted them to trade their tea, silver and gold for it. When tthe government found out what was the drug affect on people they wanted the Europeansto stop, but they didnt. They forbide the entering of opium because they were getting made how much silver and gold was leaving their country for it. They even lit some storage of opium that was in China on fire. But somehow it was still entering the borders of China. The government wanted to stop the people smoking opium that anyone who had posession of opium or were helping it to come to China would be killed or seriously punished it was a crime next to murder.
When Great Britian did not wanted to stop it created a war. It is the only war in history to be over a DRUG. For Great Britian far surpass China in technology they crushed China. And the Chineses suffered humilating defeats. In 1842 they had to make a treaty of peace which China wasnt to happy about called The Treaty of Nanking. The treaty mosty benfited Great Britian for example for anything China had to always be for Great Britian. If any Britian citizen would do any crime in China the Britians laws would be held against him instead of the ones in China. The Chinese had to open five ports for British trade like Shanghai,Canton, Amoy, Foochow and Ningpo. No restrictions can be placed on British trade, which menas Britian can still bring Opium to China which unfortunity more than doubled in 30 yrs of the treaty. Many Chineses people were drug addicts. Also years later China had to sign, when they did not want to, similar treaties to with France and the United States.