1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Katen [24]
3 years ago
11

Why was the opium war significant for britain

History
2 answers:
Korvikt [17]3 years ago
7 0

The two Opium Wars were fought from 1839-1842 and 1856-1860, have been understood by the Chinese as the beginning of their "Century of Humiliation" at the hands of Western powers, most notably Britain. Early in the nineteenth century, an insatiable appetite for Chinese goods, such as tea, silk, and china, led Britain into a trade deficit with China. To combat that, Britain significantly increased its opium trade with China. It used opium from India

umka21 [38]3 years ago
4 0

The two Opium Wars, fought from 1839-1842 and 1856-1860, have been understood by the Chinese as the beginning of their "Century of Humiliation" at the hands of Western powers, most notably Britain. 

Early in the nineteenth century, an insatiable appetite for Chinese goods, such as tea, silk and china, led Britain into a trade deficit with China. To combat that, Britain significantly increased its opium trade with China. It used opium from India, which it controlled, to finance its purchases of Chinese goods. The Chinese government, seeing the extent to which opium addiction was affecting its people, decided to enforce its ban on the opium trade. In turn, England found excuses to go to war with China and easily defeated the badly weakened country. It then imposed harsh and humiliating treaties on the Chinese, which included payment of indemnities and forcing the Chinese to cede Hong Kong to the British. Although Britain, at the time the premier world power, spearheaded the effort, other Western powers also made lucrative inroads into China.

The Opium Wars could be seen as a moral low point for Britain in its zest to exploit the resources and peoples of other nations. The Chinese tried in vain to appeal to Queen Victoria to ban the sale of opium on moral grounds, and Gladstone, the British prime minister, decried the trade as evil.

The legacy of these two wars was years of distrust in China. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the country became communist and turned inward, taking control of its own destiny and growing into a major world power determined to protect its interests in Asia. The legacy also arguably impacted twentieth-century world politics: the English and French imposed similarly humiliating terms, the Versailles treaty, on the Germans after World War I, which did not go over well with Germany, and although the period of profitable imperialism was waning, Hitler waged war in part to build a similar empire to what the British had. 

You might be interested in
If a president is accused of breaking the 22nd amendment this mean the president is trying to
Elena-2011 [213]
If the president is breaking the 22nd amendment, that means he is trying to run for a third term. 
6 0
4 years ago
The above excerpt is from which of the following documents? *
S_A_V [24]

Answer:

The Treaty of Velasco

Explanation:

The above excerpts are from the document known as THE TREATY OF VELASCO. It was made on May 14, 1836. It comprises 10 articles.

The main purpose of the Treaty of Velasco is to end the hostilities between Texas and Mexico. It was signed by representatives from both sides.

In the treaty, was the agreement to exchange prisoners and released Texas properties forcefully taken by the Mexicans.

4 0
3 years ago
Jude used many examples to teach the truth of God. Select the Old Testament places and characters Jude mentions:
UNO [17]

The answers are

Sodom

Enoch

Cain

Egypt

Balaam

Moses

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!! I NEED HELP!!!!!!
olga nikolaevna [1]
I would go with b, a merchant ship
3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Why was the compromise so important to writing of the u.s constitution
Lana71 [14]
It is important because if you dont compromise it could lead to bad things.
6 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Who holds state power in an oligarchy?
    7·1 answer
  • Describe the Magna Carta and whose powers were limited by the document?
    8·1 answer
  • What is true about president Andrew Johnson's plan for the south
    14·1 answer
  • The author says a caisson is kept free of water<br> because it is like
    7·1 answer
  • How are the Mauryan and Gupta empires alike?
    12·2 answers
  • Based solely on the per capita GDPs of the following countries, which would be considered more economically developed? Liechtens
    12·1 answer
  • The institutional arrangement that creates two relatively autonomous (independent) levels of government, each possessing the cap
    8·2 answers
  • What were the effects of the Crusades?
    5·1 answer
  • What is a plantation?
    8·2 answers
  • 4
    15·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!