Jeffrey Koala
Revolutionary China

Professor Lu
6/12/07

THE INEVITABILITY OF THE OPIUM WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA

The Opium War, which began in 1839, pitted two of history's most independently industrious strongholds against each other. It was not only hugely detrimental to China's potential of progress, but was as well equally as unavoidably inevitable. The War also had major consequences to the later relations between China and Britain. The brutal fighting that ensued between the two countries served as the conclusion of several fundamental disparities that transmitted each onto separate, vastly divided platforms of culture, governmental ideals, as well as trade systems.
Trade restrictions placed into effect by the Qing Dynasty made it both inefficient and economically illogical to trade in low-value manufactured goods easily accessible to the Chinese. Quickly, the main products being traded were tea, from China to Great Britain, and silver from Great......

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