Opium Wars
The Opium War was a display of how the greed of one country can destroy the very lives of millions of people in another country. Britain would be categorized as the greedy nation and China the victim. Even though Britain was the main aggressor in this war, there were also other nations involved in the degrading of China’s culture, they were France, Russia, and even America. All of these countries took advantage of the …
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…technology and experience in wars than China, which is the reason China had lost so much dignity in this war which was fueled by the greed of Britain and every other country that participated in the opium trade.
Bibliographies
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Charles Scribner’s Sons. New York. 1897, pgs. 162-287.
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