The Opium Wars

The Opium war consisted the British people taking a liking in the tea made in china and so the British trade it with the Chinese for the tea but the British decide to balance their trade instead of buy from china they wanted to sell too and they sell opium to the Chinese people. "opium is a really addictive drug that relives pain made in India". Because the drug was very affective the Chinese government tried to end the trade of stuff for opium and because of that reason the Opium war started.

The war is call the Opium war basically because the opium was the reason why the war started the opium was traded for the Chinese money, the Chinese people were drug and so they formed a need in their lives for the drug. they country who won the war was England because they attacked China by suprise and because they had good tachnology and China was behind in modern weapons and technology.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The film "Mountains of the Moon" Was made in 1990 and is made out of something important that happen in 1852 what happen was that two Europeans went looking for the source of the Nile River, the two explorers Richard Burton and John Speke. The two explorers went to a lot of trouble to find it they went to africa twice the first time they went almost all the people that went got kill and on of the explorers got a spear right throw his mouth. they went to many trouble in Africa for example they didn't have many supplies and the area was in bad conditions plus they had to handle the be insects and one of them got sick. In the end they founded the soure of the Nile River which is the Lake Victoria that Some thing strange that I found that the source of the Nile River, the Lake Victoria has such an awkward name becuse is name after the queen of England and the river is in africa.

The Europeans took over the africa in about 20 years, The European took the continent that fast because they had better technology but the biggest difference in technology was that the africans fought using spears and arows but the Britishs fought using gun and rifles.