Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium war was during the Imperialism in China..The western Europeans were looking places to get raw materials, trying to find new resources. In China, they've found their tea and they liked it. The British only had one port in China. The British didn't like it, so they decided to trade Opium to the Chinese people for their tea.Its started because the British wanted the Chinese tea and they started to give the Chinese Opium because it was addictive and so they would want more, they would make them give them tea for opium. in 1838 the Chinese government told the British that they didn't want anymore opium because of the addictive people and deaths caused by it, 2 years after the opium war started, but the British had better technology so they won against the Chinese. so the British made the Chinese people to sign the "Treaty of Nanjing, that permitted the British to move more easily things around china. in 1856 the second opium war began and once again the British won.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The movie is about two explorers called Richard Burton and John Speke, they were part of the Royal Geographic Society who were in that time trying to map the world, Richard and John went to Africa to find the source of Nile river, on their first try they were attacked by a group of native Africans who killed most of the people they went with as guides so they retrieved back to England, on their second coming of Africa they went even deeper on over 173 days walking down Africa to find the source of the Nile river.The Europeans had a hard experience in Africa because the type of weather and type of bugs and different animals that were dangerous another basic problem they had was the language of the continent also there were sicknesses in the continent which in England didn't have cure yet such as malaria's sickness. It is strange that the source of the Nile river is lake Victoria the name of the queen of England. it is strange because until now in century 21 is still called lake Victoria in the continent in Africa which is far away from England.The technological advance that the Europeans had over the native Africans was that they had guns and better weapons than an native African because it was like guns vs spears, so in the end the Europeans conquered Africa because of the guns they used to win it over.

Imperialism Project

In this project i learned that many of the countries that we know today weren't countries yet but where used like just resource to the Europeans, that they were not interested on making contact with different civilisations they just wanted to get raw materials that seemed nice to them and bring them back to their contrie and sell the goods they found, also most of the land they found that could be use full to them they would of named theirs so no one could get around them, and in the now adays, the people of those are adapted the language and ways of living and belief, like for example most of Central and South America were found and controlled by Spain, and in Spain they spoked Spanish, the society were most Roman Catholic, so now in the 21st Century those lands adapted the language and the beliefs, All the land that the Europeans found they just wanted to control so that no one else could have had the goods and items that could only be found in in those certain places so now they had their indecency. the European countries had routes that went to those places, they wanted spices from the islands of Indonesia and they wanted cheaper value because the middle man always raised the value at least for 3 times its value so the Europeans wanted to get rid of the middleman and get they did by getting the spices or goods themselves.