The Opium wars

Opium is like a pain remover that comes from a flower called the poppy.The opium was was between china and the Europeans. The people from china was very well addicted to the drug and many were afraid it would hurt there economy. The Chinese would get the opium from the british because the British wanted to trade with china because of the high resource of tea they had.But mostly the British were very upset because they thought that by trading with china they would get affected. So they had war between both countries.The British one because of the advance in technology compared to china. Later after the deafeated china was forced with no decision to sign the treaty of Nanjing in 1842 also Treaty of Bogue in 1843.

Film lesson: Mountains if the moon

Some hardships that they had went through was that the africans were dying. Also some of the afrians would run away or the food would get stolen as well as there valuables. Another hardship was when they were attacked by the natives. It was named after Queen Victoria because when they found it they named it after there queen. It was weird because it was in the middle of africa and it was the name of an eglish queen. The Eurooeans had advanced to technology compared to the africans who were poor. The europeans had guns and other materials that the africans had never seen in there life.The europeans were advanced in there weapons so many of the africans were feared that if they dont listen they would die.