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The First Opium War - Coggle Diagram
The First Opium War
China
🇨🇳
They had everything they wanted.
China 🇨🇳 was buying opium, this is what they were buying.
Didn't need anything from UK 🇬🇧.
1820 Opium became very addictive in China 🇨🇳.
Wrote letter to Queen Victoria asking them to stop. 'Where is your conscious?'.
China 🇨🇳 roughly had 50x population of UK 🇬🇧.
War
⚔️
Rocket hit powder store of the flagship Chinese 🇨🇳 Junk.
Powder store blew up in a massive explosion.
UK 🇬🇧 had a whole navy ready to attack.
Ningbo was next and the navy stormed through it.
UK
🇬🇧
1839 China 🇨🇳 started to remove all opium from UK 🇬🇧.
Didn't like the letter and had a whole navy ready for attack whereas China 🇨🇳 did not.
They gave cotton to India 🇮🇳 then India 🇮🇳 gave opium which was then sold to China 🇨🇳 for tea.
Tea Trades
☕
UK 🇬🇧 kept buying tea. Became national drink.
China 🇨🇳 wasn't buying anything in return.
Tea only grown in China 🇨🇳.