HIST 103 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Nicotine
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The main argument of this article is about opium, an addictive drug used both medicinally and narcotically. During the 1840s, opium reached an all time high for substance abuse. With millions of pounds being produced and seized internationally, it in uenced many things. Countries possessing large quantities of opium now had cause to defend sales. This is an important argument because it proves how a countries owned quantity of opium, would in uence their opinion on it. A key term i found in this article was honour , used commonly throughout the article. Honour is something that was very crucial with the opium crisis, many historians at the time started the opium war as a way of helping maintain free trade. With external countries such as china pressing on others such as britain. Something i found cool about the article was common references to economics, i currently am also taking economics 101.
