The Opium Wars

During the Opium war, the Chinese werent very open to trade with other antions. The British wanted the tea from the Chinese, and the Chinese wouldnt want to trade. So, the English made the Chinese addicted to Opium. Soon enough the Chinese people started becoming very sick, weak and very lazy from the drug that they were addicted to called. Opium. The Chinese government was very unhappy, which resulted for the government requested Britain to stop giving the Chinese Opium. The British refused because they wanted their tea and money, because during that time tea was very rare. Thats when they declared war.
It is called the Opium war is because the chinese were trying to get Opium out of their country, but the British kept bringing Opium in China. As a result the British easily won the Chinese because the British had advanced weapons and a bigger and stronger milatary. This is one of Chinese's most humiliating loss in history, because they got beaten so badly. In Conclusion, the Chinese decided to allow trade to catch up on the mdoern technoligy.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

When Europeans tried getting to Africa they faced many hardships. Some of them include getting attacked by native African tribes, dying from starvation, and dehydration. Also a very common way of them getting stopped is catching malaria from mosquitoes.
The source of the Nile river was Lake Victoria. Even though it was in Africa it was called Lake Victoria because John Speke and Richard Burton named it after there queen, Queen Victoria. The technological advantages that the Europeans had were guns, and the Africans had spears and wood. The Europeans eventually conquered the continent because they had machine guns and they can kill multiple Africans at a time.