Opium War

From 1839 to 1842 China fought in the Opium Wars against Britain. It all started when China and Britain started trading Opium which was juice from seedpods which was used to produce heroin. Many of the Chinese people were hooked to the drug by the early 1800's. The drug had a very big impact on China a lot of people were hooked on it 10% of China was smoking Opium. Opium was intended to help cure disease but it didn't go that way. In 1839 Britain arrived in China with their gun boats and destroyed many costal cities.. That was known as the first Opium War. 

Film lesson:Mountain of the Moon!

The hardships of exploring Africa is that the mosquitoes carried malaria and people died from it. Another was you had to sleep with the light off because if you didn't the bugs would crawl on you and also it would get in your ears that's what happen in the movie. The reason why they w9ere exploring Africa was to find the source of the Nile river. Which they did find and when they found it they named it lake Victoria after their Queen and what was so funny about that is that the Queen is white and Africa is a black country. So its weird to name a lake after a white woman a black country. They had guns and the Africans didn't. So that's why it was so to conquer Africa because when they came back like 20 years later they had machine guns and things like that so that's why it was so easy to take over Africa.

Imperialism Project

The reason why we did this project is so we can learn about how imperialism spread across the world. What I learned from this project is that imperialism did have a big effect on the world on the world and that it spread rapidly. What i remember from the project is that I had to draw a lot of shipping routes and also remember coloring a lot countries because imperialism was spreading.