Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The opium war started in 1839 and ended in 1842. China fought Britain during the war.  China used to use opium as treatments for diseases and sicknesses. The Chinese had put opium in the green tea and it became very popular.  The British started putting opium with tobacco so then it was smokable. 

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie Mountains Of The Moons the European people wanted to find the starting of the nile river. They faced many problems because the African people weren't used to seeing white people. So they encountered some problems on the way and faced some hard tasks. The African people would like inspect them and touch there clothes and hair because it was new to them. Its strange because lake Victoria in Africa is names after a European queen because John Speek named it that when he found it. But he didn't discover it the African people living there long before him probably knew about it.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project because to see how countries conquered others and how in some places the speak different languages. I learned why some countries that i didnt expect to know speaks certain languages. I thought Brazil speaks spanish but they speak portugesse because spanish conquered brasil. Also some places in africa speek languages other than african. In conclusion doing this project i learned alittle more about imperialism.