Are we proud of the British Empire?

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Are we proud of the British Empire?

• Looking at the Opium wars.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How did Opium get into China?

• It was smuggled into China by English Merchants.
  Opiums present name is Heroin but in Hospitals
  they call it Morphine. Its illegal if you take
  it out of hospitals.

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How did the Chinese deal with selling of Opium?
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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 shouldnt really be proud of
  the British Empire.

Sir James Lancaster died 1618
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• 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

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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.