the opium war

What happened during the opium wars?

pium was a very addicting drug kind of thing that the Chinese used to heal pain and diarrhea and the British found that giving opium to the Chinese was their only way to open a trade connection with china. But this opium which they got from India wasn't so original in fact it made the Chinese people very lazy and they couldn't meet their expectations then soon they were addicted to this drug. During the Opium War china battled with Britain because the Chinese emperor ordered Britain to stop trading and selling opium to the Chinese citizens. Since the British didn't want to stop , that's when the war broke out. The war broke out on sea. Eventually china was no match for Britain. The British had vast steam operated ships and rifles that the Chinese couldn't get close to.The Chinese had Boats that were old and not as much modernized a the British so the British ended up beating china.

The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden" means that the the white man has certain duties to do in life. Relating to the poem, the white man's duty is to convert the Philippines into a civilized democratic place to live which was a difficult task for the white man.

The Scramble for Africa

The term Scrabble for Africa meant how European countries , Spain, Germany, Italy, were so obsessed with the new land that everybody anted Africa for their resources. They were all competing for resources. There resources were gold, wood,rubber, iron, tin, diamond, silver, copper. They were able to dominate Africa because they just inventedthe machine gun and they also found the cure for malaria. With the cure of malaria they were able to go to the jungles and not die of the mosquitoes bites. This Scrabble affected the African people because the whites thought that they dominated the country and that they were the first race and the best race. They took advantage of the African people and made them into slaves. The Europeans killed thousands of Africans and separated people within their tribes leading to also separation of families.

Film Lesson Mountains of the Moon

Europeans faced many hardships as they went to africa.the native African people would ambush and kill Europeans.The journey was so long, that many people died of heat ansd tiredness.the lake that is the center of the Nile river is named after a British queen is because an Englishman found it and then named it after the queen of England.The Europeans had guns, while the Africans had spears. The Europeans would eventually get machine guns and a cure for Malaria. This would allow it to be easy through the heart of Africa.