The major cause of the opium war was the high demand of opium in China. During this time, China and Great Britain were having some issues regarding the trades. Instead of paying silver, Great Britain had traded opium with China.
Because of this, Great Britain was able to pull of several treaties that allowed them to expand their trades in China and they were also able to have Hong Kong.
Because of these, China was forced to embargo some of the Opium Shipments and burn the opium coming in and out of the country. This event had angered Britain and thus, Opium War occurred
Peasants were clearnly not satisfied with Emperor Nianhao, the seventh emperor from the Ming Dynasty. The Taiping Rebellion was the biggest rebellion in China.
The social contract saw the authority of a ruler coming from the people, whereas the diving right of kings saw a ruler's authority coming from God.
Philosophers of the Enlightenment era were famous for arguing the idea of a "social contract." According to this view, a government's power to govern comes from the consent of the people themselves -- those who are to be governed. This was a change from the previous ideas of "divine right monarchy" -- that a king ruled because God appointed him to be the ruler. One of the most influential of the social contract theorists was John Locke, who repudiated the views of divine right monarchy in his <em>First Treatise on Civil Government.</em> In his <em>Second Treatise on Civil Government</em>, Locke then argued for the rights of the people to create their own governments according to their own desires and for the sake of protecting and enhancing their own life, liberty, and property.
Though the exact details of his life and expeditions are the subject of
debate, John Cabot (or Giovanni Cabot, as he was known in Italian) may
have developed the idea of sailing westward to reach the riches of Asia
while working for a Venetian merchant. By the late 1490s, he was living
in England, and gained a commission from King Henry VII to make an
expedition across the northern Atlantic. He sailed from Bristol in May
1497 and made landfall in late June. The exact site of Cabot’s landing
has not been definitively established; it may have been located in
Newfoundland, Cape Breton Island or southern Labrador. After returning
to England to report his success, Cabot departed on a second expedition
in mid-1498, but is thought to have perished in a shipwreck en route.
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