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.