Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium War was the British and China from 1839 to 1842. British force China to allow free tread particularly in Opium. British decided they needed to balance their tread. That's mean that they must buy and sell to China, not just buy.So British got Opium form India and they decided to tread China Opium. Opium is a drug grown in India. Opium is used to make morphine and other drugs. Opium is used for relive pain, it help with sleeplessness. Sometimes Opium can be dangerous. The British felt the rulers in China had no right to keep opium from their people. The Opium War lasted from 1839 to 1842.On the Opium War Chinese also lost control of the important island of Hong Kong.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Last two days we where watching move called "Mountains of the Moon". It is about two British explorers Richard Frances and Jhon Henning they went Africa to find Nile River Source.They were sent by the Royal Geographic society of London. When they were their they had known a lot of information. They had many problems, bad eating habbits, dirty water. They had to sleep with the light off if they didn't the bugs would crawl on you and also it would get in your ears that's what happen in the movie to Jhon Henning. Naile River is named after white British queen. Thes source of Nile River which is now named Victoria is the 3rd largest lake in the world. The advantage that the European explorers had was that they had guns back then it was the most dangerous weapon. And that help the European conquer the Africans because the only thing the Africans had spears and the Europeans had guns.

Imperialism Project

The reason why we did this project is to learn about how imperialism spread around the world.
I learned many things form this project. We have to found countries in the map and label them with the goods they had in their countries. I also learned things they tread such as gold and silver. Great Britain tread Opium to China. We have to drow a lot of sipping routes and colored with different colores becouse imperialism was spreading.