Opium Wars-Imperialism in China

The Opium Wars started when the British wanted to trade tea with the chinese people. The main reason why the Opium War started was because the British wanted the tea and  the chinese people refused to trade with them because they were very isolated. The Chinese people thought they were better then everyone else, so there was no need for the Chinese people to trade with the British. The British then started giving out free opium, opium was a drug that was given to the chinese people for free. Very soon the chinese people became very addicted to it. 

The British then stop giving out free opium to chinese people and said, we wont give you anymore opium until you guys trade us tea. The chinese government then said to the British, you guys cant come into china and give our people free opium. This led to the Opium war. The chinese fought over for the Opium and the British fought over the tea. Eventually the British won because of their more superior weapons. The chinese technology and weapons were not as good as British because China was a very isolated country, they kept everything to themselves and thought they were more superior than the others. This isolation caused China in a lack of technology and weapons. 

Mountains Of The Moon

In the movie Mountains of the Moon the people faced many problems as the European went deeper into central Africa to find the source of the nile. Problems they faced while on their exploration were running into tribes, mosquito which carried malleria( there was no cure at that time), wild animals, and some of the Africians the European took with for their expidetion ran off with supplies for the exploration, so the people was short on supplies. Once they found the source of the Nile they name it Lake Victoria which is now the 3rd largest lake in the world. Why would they name a river that is in Africa after a Bristish Queen. The reason why was because the Africians didnt all come together and decided the name of the lake. The Bristish thought they discovered it which wasnt really true because their were tribes living by the Nile already. They Bristish councsil decided that the name of the nile should be named Lake Victoria. After the 2nd exploriation the European went back to Europe because they were running low on supplies and people were dying. After 2 yrs the European had more advanced weapons and they went back to Africa to conqueror central Africa. They easily conqueror central Africa because the Euorpean had machine guns and the Africians were still using spears and shield. Another reason why the Euorpean were successful in their defeat over the Africians was that they finally had a cure for malleria so no one was scared of gettin malleria

Imperialism Project

We did the Imperialism Project to get a better understanding of where imperialism was around the world and which countries were imperialism and which ones were not. What I learned from the project was that British controlled many countries for their goods. From what I remember British controlled India, Canada, Eastern side of America and mostly all Africa. So British was pretty rich from all these resources they got from other countries. One outside information I wanted to share was that China wasn't controlled by British until British started giving them free drugs.