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- In 1644 the _____ swept over china to tibet. The manchurians were a foreign race but they eventually became sinicized
- Manchu
- they embraced the vision of china as the __________
- center of civilization (middle kingdom)
- Western Adventurers came to china during the Ch'ing Dynasty mostly to ________
- make money
- When the portugese and other europeans came to china they realized they were _____________ to the chinese
- militarily superior
- The dutch took Indonesia and the French took indochina but _____ had the best silks, porcelians and tea in the world
- china
- In 1793 ______________ was sent to china to meet with Qianlong in order to initiate trade with china on an equal basis
- Lord Macartney
- Qianlong considered the british barbarians and said that he had no need for _______, but that the british could pay silver for tea and silk if they wished to do so.
- British Goods
- The Port of ______ was the first chinese concession to western nations
- macao
- The chinese saw westerners as uncultured barbarians and the west saw china as ______
- godless heathens
- at macao merchants and missionaries came to china to open it up to ____ and ____
- christ / free trade
- every october the merchants of macao sailed 50 miles up the pearl river to _______
- Canton
- the canton system was a syustem of limited trade in which all foreigners were contained in _______
- one port
- Outside the city 12 skilled merchants dealt with foreigners. They were called the ______ merchants and some made a great deal of money
- hong
- Edward and Warren Delano, the frandfather of _________ were involved in the china trade
- FDR
- Finally they discovered ______. The british few poppies for the source of opuim in india to sell in _____
- Opium / China
- The americans bought their opium in _______ and sold it in china
- Turkey
- the money bostonian traders etc..... made fro mopium helped build railroads, universities like _________ and even helped dinf the research of _____
- Princeton / Alexander Grahm Bell
- Since the opium trade was illegal in china a clever ....... Ships from macao went to the island of _____ off the coast of china.
- Lintin
- with this system there was no risk to _____merchants
- foreign
- by 1835 over _____ chinese were addicted to opium. Eventually mostly the middle class and above got addicted
- 2 Million
- in china they struggled to find a way to stop the illegal trade, they suggested _____ to the users, _____ to the sellers, and even _______ the drug
- punish / punish / legalize
- The Manchu Emperor appointed _______ as the drug czar to stop the opium trade
- Lin Tse Hsu
- Lin is today a symbol of the need to stand uip in the influences of _________
- foreign trade
- om 1839 __________ arrived in Canton to look for a solution to the trade
- Lord Macartney
- Lin tier to learn more about........He thought that the merchants must be _________
- Outlaws
- HE WROTE A LETTER TO _______ -nuff said
- queen victoria
- since he reveived no reply Lin blockaded traders in their factories, _____ and ____ the opium
- confiscated / dissolved
- The opium traders hurried to __________ and demanded tha the chinese pay for the opium destroyed
- london and parliament
- by 1939 opium was the worlds..... THe british sent an _____ to china of 16 warships and 4000 troops to defend _______
- armada / opium trade
- the ___ was the britains secret weapon .......... and destroyed ___ with their guns
- steam ship / local forts
- to end the war, the _____ paid 6 million .....the british also took _____ which would.
- chinese / hong kong