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.