Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium Wars was a drug war. This was a war over Opium and that is why this was called the Opium War. Opium is made of juice, seedpods, and to produce heroin. There was a couple of the Opium War. In the first Opium War close to 2 million pounds of Opium was sold in China. 10% of the Chinese were smoking Opium.

The second war happened because there was a dispute over treaties and boarding British Ship Arrow. The second Opium War was also known as the Lorcha Arrow War. China loss the war. This was because were forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin. Britain was the victor of this war.