<span>he did not offer it to former confederate officials or military officers because those officials and officers could start a rebellion </span><span />
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The imperialism prevails because it shaped not by distributing or transporting enormous numbers of refugees to settle and inhabit new lands, but instead by generating and producing political, military, and business structures that permitted them to govern and profit from existing inhabitants. This enhances imperial nations and formed new classes or types of people whose lives were molded by demands of imperial administration and business.
<span>The Opium Wars had several resounding effects on China. The first being the more obvious results of losing the war: a weakened military, weakened defenses (several were forced to be torn down after the treaty), opening up of more ports to British and others after the second Opium War (this affected the pouring in of opium as well as a greater influence of Westerners in China), a ridiculous indemnity both times, the sacking of the Summer Palace, and several others. </span>