The Opium Wars

opium is a drug from a poppy seed plant that could be used to produce heroin. china was an isolated nation that didn't want anything to do with other nations. they were like stuck up and believed that their ancient rituals were the only thing they should worry. the British knew that they needed the resources from china so they they made the Chinese try opium drug until they were addicted to it. the Chinese got so addicted that many people couldn't live without it so British used this against them for exchanged of China's resources for example tea. china in their defense did like this at all. so they went to war with the British. the British crushed the Chinese because the British had more advanced technology weapon wise. they had machine guns,cannon and steam engine boats.