The Opium Wars

Many things happened during the opium war. The British began to trade opium to the Chinese for tea. The Chinese used the opium as medicine in the beginning, but soon the British began to show the Chinese how to smoke opium. The Chinese emperor began to hate the British for bringing the opium to China. He hated the British because the opium was making the people of China very lazy. So the emperor wrote a letter to queen Victoria, but the queen of england did not respond to the letter. Then China closed it's trading gates to england, but england did not like this so they came with gunboats and attacked the Chinese ports the Chinese tried to defend themselves but the British boats were too advanced in technology. So england defeated the Chinese easily.

"The White Man's Burden"

The white man's burden was to bring every one civilization to all the native lands like Africa, and Asia. I agree with this analysis because the poem is basically saying that Europe is like getting tired of making everyone civilized. I think that the Europeans were just confused because it's not like the other lands wanted to be civilized. What Europe did was first conquer the land and then by force make them learn how to be civilized. I don`t think that the U.S. was as imperialistic
as before. In some places they might some racial slurs, but no we are not living the white man's burden anymore.

The scramble for africa

The main countries that fought over the land of Africa were Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, and Belgium. These countries fought over Africa's vast resources like diamonds, gold, silver, rubber trees, ivory, wood, salt, and other materials. They were able take over Africa with the invention of the machine gun and the cure for malaria. The Europeans made many borders which confused the Africans by separating the friendly tribes and putting them together with their rival tribes.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Some of the hardships that the English explorers John Speak and Richard Burden faced were the harsh weathers in Africa. Africa has a very hot climate, which explains it's deserts. The wild tribes were also a problem. The first time John and Richard encountered a wild tribe they were attacked and they had to retreat back to england. Then when they returned, they encountered other tribes. These other tribes were