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.

Film Lesson: Mountains Of The Moon

Exploring Europe these explorers ( Richard Burton , John Speek ) thought that it wouldnt be hard. It was something they shouldnt have doubted. It was hard for the fact that they had to walk in that hot weather. They had to fight agaisnt tribes that lived around there and they would loose because lots of there men would die because of maleria, bad water, insect poisan, or they would run away before even getting to there destination point. The purpose it is wierd that Lake Victoria is named after the british Queen is because it is a place of pure african american people. But they named it a white persons name. That is completly unormal.

The main source and the thing that the white people had over the Africans were that they had guns and much more developed mind state. Therefore it mad them have more power then the rest. Once the machine guns were invented it was like a handfull of people were able to conquer and take over Africa very easily.

Imperialism project

We did the imperialism project because it was the more detailed way to show the takeover of different colonies. It showed how England and France , Spain, Germany, Italy colonies etc took over many countries. I learned that many countries were owned by one major Country like how Spain owned most of South America. France owned most of Africa. I learned alot by just doing this project. Alot of this was based on trades. Spain and Italy and Gerymany etc wanted spices and gold / silver.