What happen during the opium war was that the britian and the chinese fought and they had some tradings going on during thee 1830's to 1840's. the chinese were self-sufficient witch means independence. also the chinese emperor was interested in the gadgets that the english had brought him because it was easier for the english to track the chinese people and make sure what they doing is being hiddin and not letting the chinese knowing what they doing. the chinese didnt like to trade at all but what the english did was that they trick the chinese into trading so thats what they did. What they had trade was opium. opium was a drug witch the doctors had been using it to relieve pain for a hundred years then the britian merchants smuggled opuim into china for non medical use. also they were getting more and wanting more of the opium that they got so addicted to it and they were getting sick and injured and it killed 12 million. chinese people. The group who won the war where the england people because they had stronger boats and it was to much for the chinese people to handle there boat where very weak and there weapons were to.
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