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Britain wants Chinese tea and pays with opium grown in India. When China tries to stop the drug trade, British warships force it open. Students follow the Opium Wars from Canton to Hong Kong and Shanghai, and see why China calls this the start of a "century of humiliation".
Al terminar la lección, los alumnos podrán
- Explain how the tea and opium trade linked Britain, India and China.
- Describe the causes and results of the First (1839-1842) and Second (1856-1860) Opium Wars.
- Explain what the "unequal treaties" were and why they still matter in China today.