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.