The Opium Wars

badly hooked by the early 1800's. It The opium War also known as the Anglo Chinese Wars, lasted from 1839 to 1842 and 1850 to 1860. The Opium war a a climax between the Qing dynasty and the United Kingdom and Ireland. British smuggling of Opium from British India into china in defiance of China's drug laws erupted into open warfare between Britain and China. Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods, and used to produce heroin. The drug was mainly produced in and shipped from the east indies to china by British merchants. This addictive drug was had gotten many Chinesewasn't always a addictive drug to China, it used to be a medicine in which they used to cure diseases, this happened in the 15Th century. it was used to cure diseases such as dysentery,cholera, as well as diarrhea.

In the movie "Mountains Of The Moon", there were many hardships in traveling to Africa.One thing that was a problem to the Europeans was that they had to travel through scorching desserts. They had no food and no water. When they found a lake, they thought there problems of water was over, but later on they found out that the lake was contagious and if they drank it they would later die of the disease. Another thing is that since a lot of the people that drank out of the lake, they died or got very weak and unable to work. So the Europeans lost many of their men and they couldn't carry everything they wanted to Africa.The technological advances that the Europeans had over the Africans was the guns. The Europeans had guns and the Africans only had spears.

Many years later, after the two Europeans,Richard Burton and John Speke returned from Africa, other Europeans returned to Africa but this time with machine guns.And people in Africa still had spears and shields that were made out of wood. And because Europeans came back with machine guns, they were easily able to conquer Africa.The source of the Nile river, Queen Victoria, was named that way because Queen Victoria was ruler of a different country and they named the river in Africa after her. That's what strange about the name of that river.