To what extent do you know opium? Most probably many people know that opium is the crude product of harmful drugs like morphine and heroin which are very fatal drugs. An opiate or a opium abused can be find out using a drug test kit. If you have got a chance to read about Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, you will probably know much about its affects.
But how many of you know that there were two great wars taken place in history in the name of this drug, generally called as Opium wars. There was first opium war which was fought between 1839 to 1842 and second opium war fought between 1856 to 1860. Though not popular as the world wars they helped the British to take over the great China. The first opium war was between Britain and China to end China’s restrictions on foreign trade and smuggling of opium into its country by British. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou.
But how many of you know that there were two great wars taken place in history in the name of this drug, generally called as Opium wars. There was first opium war which was fought between 1839 to 1842 and second opium war fought between 1856 to 1860. Though not popular as the world wars they helped the British to take over the great China. The first opium war was between Britain and China to end China’s restrictions on foreign trade and smuggling of opium into its country by British. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou.
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