HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Second Opium War, Bantu Languages, Hong Xiuquan
2 Nov 2016
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East india company- british corporation, created to explore india, take over india and pushing out people in india and establish english control in india. Privately held and have connection w bri army to suppress their control. Opium war - european starts bullying the asia, europe want what china have, though china have the advantage. Illegal in british, but still want to sell in china to destroy their system. Throw away 7 million dollar of british east india company. Afghanistan/india which is plentiful in poppy fields, starts selling opium to china. English demand the qing to pay reparations for lost opium, 7 billion dollars. Designed to get money out of china and to weaken them economically. Second 1856 - 1860 have the qing army resetting the war and try to push back, but bri, This causes british to have a war with china, though qing is unstable.
