Transcript Are we proud of the British Empire?

Are we proud of the British
Empire?
Looking at the Opium wars.
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?
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.
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.
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.
How did Opium get into
China?
• It was smuggled into China by English
Merchants. Opium’s present name is
Heroin but in Hospitals they call it
Morphine. It’s illegal if you take it out
of hospitals.
How did the Chinese deal with
selling of Opium?
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 shouldn’t
really be proud of the British
Empire.
Sir James Lancaster died 1618
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
Acknowlodgemets
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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.