Opium Wars. Imperialism In China

The Opium wars were wars that made a change in China. China was at its peek it had a large amount of opium that other countries and people want. The French and the British were some of the people that wanted so of the opium and they tried to trade but at the same time the Chinese didnt want to trade so the French and the British couldn't do nothing about it. They thought the best way to get it is to win it over the Chinese so they set out the Opium war to label were they stand. The French and The British were the ones to defeat China and opened up new ports of trading for the people to receive goods from the Chinese people. Opium trade blew up for the next century gave great domination for the countries to get it. The Christians were able to spread the religion to others to give god to those of China. Before they were not permitted to. This all happened in 1856.