Friday, December 18, 2009

The Opium imperialism ... what happen ?

For centuries china called itself the middle kingdom , this meant that china was at the center of the world . China felt that it did not need everything from the rest of the world . The british had a negative balance of trade , this means that the british were buying more than they were selling . "They decided to bring in opium mixed with tobacco to promote opium smoking.". It was made in dies and then shipped to china by british merchants. The opium war was a battle of drugs over China and England. England won the war against China, got five ports to trade, every crime was convicted as if in England, but really in China. Also China was forced to sign the treaty of Nanking. it was called the Opium war because that was the drug that had been traded between China and England for sereval years. England was able to win the war, because of the advance technology that they had over China. Leading to a crushing defeat on China's account.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Mountain of the moon Movie

The Europeans had a hard time looking for the source of the nile river in africa. The explore name was John Speke and Richard Burton came to africa in 1854 looking for the source of the nile . The reason is that the europeans did not know what the inside of africa looked like. They first came to africa around at 1854 and they landed in the Somalia. From there , they went inland and there they had many problems. The faced dangerous tribes and there were almost killed.

The second time they went to africa , they had other more problems like bad water and they lost equipment,food,the wildlife and the terrain like the weather of what they walked on. When john speke finally found the nile began , he named it after the queen of england. After the explore came soldiers advaned with gatlit guns  

Monday, December 7, 2009

what did we do in the imperialism project ?

The reason why we did the European Imperialism project was that they were spreading across the world.What I learn was that in the imperialism had to many tobacoo , diseses , weapons (etc.) that cost them alot of stuff , and i just remembered that I had to color and pastsed the countries that they had effected.And that's the reason why we did this is because they were spreading the world