Imperialism

** main idea: **
===** the main idea was that the england had better techonolgy with making the first machine gun in history and this caused other countries to get upset and England had more power. **===

Opium chinese smoked alot

British East India Company sell opium- get rich

Emperor rules China son OD and died stop sending us Opium.

=China= -To solve this trade imbalance Britain imported opium

- Chinese officials attempted to ban the importation of the highly addictive opium but failed.

-The British declared war on China in a series of conflicts called the Opium Wars.

- British win the war and the Chinese lost facing unequal treaties.

- 1842 **Treaty of Nanjing**, the Chinese were to: Reimburse Britain for costs incurred fighting the Chinese, Open several ports to British trade, Provide Britain with complete control of Hong Kong, Grant extraterritoriality to British citizens living in China. they -the United States demanded equal trading status within China, and rather than carve out its own sphere of influence, simply announced the Open Door Policy in 1899.

-Chinese citizens staged the Taiping Rebellion between 1850-1864, killing millions of chinese in the process.

-In 1911, China tumbled into civil war as local warlords tryed to take controll of the country.

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1. Zixu's agruement to the British smuggling opium was that opium is strictly prohibited from Britian because the causes are understood there, so that should be a reason why they shouldn't sell opium to china or other countries.

2. his attitude is a calm yet demanding voice to stop selling opium in china.

3. they had good relationships with trading each other but when one product is bad and the country wants them to stop selling it there, then it might take good reasoning to make them stop selling it there.

Letter to Queen Victoria

Dear Queen Victoria, On behalf of the chinese empire im writing this letter to ask you stop selling opium to the country of China. I ask this of you because many of our people now are becoming addicted to it and want to buy more and more. But the affects of the drug has been killing some of our people because they are so addicted to it and that sometimes they take to much at once that they ended up dieing after that. The Chinese government is aking you to please stop selling opium to our country. Your scientist have proven that opium is bad for the people's health and you have made it illegal in Britian but you still sell it to other countries knowing the risks of health that opium can do to a person. So we are asking you if you could stop selling opium to us and to the other countries you have been selling it to.

Sincerely, The Chinese Government