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Are we proud of the British Empire?

Are we proud of the British Empire?. Looking at the Opium wars. Questions. What is The British Empire? What is Opium? Why did the East India Company start growing Opium? How did opium get into China? How did the Chinese deal with the selling of drugs?. What is the British Empire?.

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Are we proud of the British Empire?

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  1. Are we proud of the British Empire? Looking at the Opium wars.

  2. Questions • What is The British Empire? • What is Opium? • Why did the East India Company start growing Opium? • How did opium get into China? • How did the Chinese deal with the selling of drugs?

  3. What is the British Empire? • The Empire is lots of Countries being ruled by one country. The British ruled many Countries including India, South Africa, and Australia.The British Empire started in the 15th century.

  4. What is opium? • Opium is a milky substance that can be drained from unripe poppy capsules. It is a strong drug and it can be used for medicine. It is also very addictive and dangerous.

  5. Why did the East India company start trading opium? • When the British sailed to China to get Tea, the Chinese refused to because they only wanted silver. Soon it was very expensive, so the British grew Opium and sold it for silver.

  6. How did Opium get into China? • It was smuggled into China by English Merchants. Opium’s present name is Heroin but in Hospitals they call it Morphine. It’s illegal if you take it out of hospitals.

  7. How did the Chinese deal with selling of Opium?

  8. How has the British Empire affected us and are we proud of it? • Without the British Empire we would not have tea,sugar,rice e.t.c.Although we have some things to be proud of ,the British Empire has brought things to be ashamed of too like the fact they done slave trade and sold opium.So looking back at the opium wars we shouldn’t really be proud of the British Empire. Sir James Lancaster died 1618

  9. This presentation was brought to you by Madhya Mehmood, Eleanor Tindall and Romlynn Ramos from Henry Maynard Junior School and Thomas Bowers and Abir Choudhury from Warwick School for Boys. The End

  10. Acknowlodgemets • Opium smoker www.nmm.ac.uk. • Coat of arms nmm.ac.uk. • A trading Junk nmm.ac.uk. • Ships trading in the east nmm.ac.uk. • Chinese sword captured during the first opium war nmm.ac.uk • Chinese man clipart • Sir James Lancaster nmm.ac.uk.

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