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.
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