How a Company Hooked China on Opium - Tea Led to the Opium War
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🎥 Watch 300+ exclusive videos on Youtube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw/join and Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the early modern world, India and colonialism continues with a video on how the British India Company conquered India through war, intrigue, and empire building. Previously we have covered the Rise of the British East India Company (https://youtu.be/_SHhiEISRrE), how the conquest of India started (https://youtu.be/HTUbi3h7-4g), and how India and Tipu Sultan resisted it (https://youtu.be/NoMJjyJpq-w). How did a British trading company turn China’s tea trade into an opium crisis and a war? In this episode of our British East India Company series, we follow John Company from its early foothold in Canton to its vast opium fields in Bengal. Britain wanted Chinese tea, but Qing merchants wanted silver. The Company found another way to balance the trade: grow
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