How Did The Opium War Affect People's Life
Opium is the world’s most addictive component that is able to affect a person’s life positively and negatively. The opium comes from a poppy plant which can be transformed into medication that people can use as painkillers or as a drug that can be highly abused to hit euphoria. Hospitals and militaries use opium in a form called morphine which is used to treat severe pain. In order to fight effectively during battles, opium was consumed in order to withstand a great amount of pain and if a solider was to be fatally wounded, they would not feel a thing. The British grew a strong dependency for opium for that specific reason whereas China banned trading opium and cultivating it completely. Once you start abusing opium, there is no going back
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Their failure was due to the fact that Britain was more technologically advance with their weaponry. Britain considered that the purpose of the Opium war was to teach China a thing or two about free trade. After the loss, China was forced to sign a treaty that enable outside countries to trade with them. The Opium War changed opened China towards new social, political, and economic changes. As a result of the signed treaty, China created new relations with Western society. Many trades were being done; Opium was a major trading good. It gradually became cheaper due to high consumption and abuse levels. Not only did foreigners venture under the Canton System, they also found their way inside city walls. As they made their way into the city, they brought with them their Christian beliefs to the villagers and hostility towards the foreigners began to increase. Hostility resulted in major inter-racial marriages. Their army began to modernize as well as to building factories for mass production of goods. Before when there was even a war, China was in the process of establishing an urban market economy. After the war, China was widely exposed to western industries. With that being said, China had to depend on foreign trading in order to compete with other
Their failure was due to the fact that Britain was more technologically advance with their weaponry. Britain considered that the purpose of the Opium war was to teach China a thing or two about free trade. After the loss, China was forced to sign a treaty that enable outside countries to trade with them. The Opium War changed opened China towards new social, political, and economic changes. As a result of the signed treaty, China created new relations with Western society. Many trades were being done; Opium was a major trading good. It gradually became cheaper due to high consumption and abuse levels. Not only did foreigners venture under the Canton System, they also found their way inside city walls. As they made their way into the city, they brought with them their Christian beliefs to the villagers and hostility towards the foreigners began to increase. Hostility resulted in major inter-racial marriages. Their army began to modernize as well as to building factories for mass production of goods. Before when there was even a war, China was in the process of establishing an urban market economy. After the war, China was widely exposed to western industries. With that being said, China had to depend on foreign trading in order to compete with other