Opium Wars- Imperialism in China

From 1839-1842 the "Opium Wars" was fought between China and Britain. Britain needed tea from China because it has become a very popular drink in Britain. The chinese agreed to sell them the tea and not let them buy anything from the "western Countries." The British wanted to get even with the chinese so they sold them opium knowing they would become addicted so they would buy more and more. Then the chinese got mad and thats how the "Opium war" started. The Chinese lost doing to the fact of have less modern technology than the British.

"Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie "Mountain of the Moon" some hardships that the Europeans faced was Malaria this played a big role in the movies because people was dying so they were losing the strength. so if they were losing men other men had to hold the weight of two men instead of one. It was weird that the source of the Nile river was named after a British queen because the simple fact that the Lake(lake Victoria) was located in Africa and not in England. The Europeans have an advantage over the Africans because they were more modernized &&* advanced that them just fro the simple fact they had guns &&* the Africans didn't. They were able to conquer the African easiley because they had Machine guns &&* a cure for Malaria.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project to see how many countries were taken over by other countries & to see how many countries took other countries over. From this project I remember at least 7 countries took other countries over that became colonies of who took them over. The thing I remember from this project was that England(Great Britain) took over the most countries.