The Opium Wars

The opium wars were about the Chinese government did not want the Europeans to bring any opium into china. The Europeans did not want to stop because they used opium as a trade for china's resource tea. As the Chinese people were becoming addicted to the opium it brought in more tea for the Europeans. The opium wars included china and England. the English won the war without effort. The English had better weapons so the Chinese swords were no match for the guns the English had. So now the English now controlled China and able to take any resource they want.