opium wars

China fought wars during the years 1839 to 1842 with britain
The opium wars started when tea was very popular in britain but the poblem was that china only agreed to trade tea with britain under one condition they traded at port Canton because they didnt want western idaes to get into thire civilization.The bristish then decided that they would be better off selling to china instead of trading thats when opium came into the picture
opium is grown in india opium is used to make morphine and heroin the chinese goverment outlawed the import of opium because of the debilitating effects of this drug .in the end the british won wthe chinese goverment signed a peace treaty this treaty let the britsh trade in five ports not only one and the chinese also lost control of hong kong and china was forced to legalize the sell of opium.