The Opium Wars were two minor wars fought between China and Great Britain (primarily) over the opium trade in China. They took place during the middle of the 1800s near the end of the Qing Dynasty. Some historians consider the Opium Wars to be the start of the modern era in China.
After winning the war, the British forced the Chinese to sign the Treaty of Ranking. The treaty reestablished trade between the countries and opened up five trade ports to Britain. It also forced China to pay $21 million in reparations and gave Britain control of the city of Hong Kong
At the Convention of Peking in 1860, the Chinese agreed to sign a treaty with Britain and France. The treaty legalized the opium trade, established freedom of religion in China, forced China to pay France and Britain reparations, and opened a new trade port.
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so technically its A</h2><h2>
an opium addiction occurred in China</h2><h2>
because the Opium got very addictive</h2>
They abandoned the nomadic life by developing farming techniques through water management, including canal-building, water storag, drainage, irrigation.
With the prosperity which this generated, they moved on to development of almost all the techniques that formed the basis of civilized life before the industrial revolution: architecture, transport, metalworking, carpentry, pottery, glass-making, textile manufacture and leather-working as well as many processes associated with farming and food preparation. In southern Mesopotamia irrigation and flood control were necessary and this gave rise to a number of subsidiary technologies of
I think it was because Public education would require large amounts of tax dollars.
When Ayatollah Khomeini was brought into power in 1979, be brought about an “Islamic Revolution”. Much of what Ayatollah Khomeini brought about when he rose to power in 1979 is still in place in modern day Iran. For instance, the entire modern day Iranian government operates based off of the 1979 revolutionary ideas.
<span>He used a Crusade as a weapon of power. Frederick II had become king at a young age due to the death of his father, Henry VI, and Innocent was against the idea of unification of Sicily under one ruler, since there were 3 who were being considered at the time. As a way of looking to excommunicate heretics, Innocent began a Great Crusade campaign in 1198, which he led himself, unlike prior pontiffs.</span>
