HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dogpile, Safavid Dynasty
16 Nov 2016
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British corp, created to exploit recourses in the east indies. Takes over subcontinent of india, pushing out prior groups. Privately held, enough connections to get support from british army. As long as there has been trading group in england, they"ve wanted the good stuff from china. Come up with realization, bc of iec they do own india. They hook the black market of china in these. Flood market with cheap british opium, price goes down. Commissioner lin take matters into their own hand. 1839- commissioner lin comes into warehouses and confiscates their opium from british he thrown the whole 7 million dollars in 1839 money into the harbor similar to tea party. Qing dynasty ruling at time but not doing well, low technology, defeated by british, humiliated. Britain wins the war, demands china pays cost of opium dumped in water, pay for losing the war. Treaty excerpts britain"s from chinese law, access to ports.
