Let's head to China to talk about the two Opium Wars of the 1800s - China's 'Century of Humiliation' comes to a head when the East India Company gets pushback on their not-so-legal import of the drug Opium into China.

Learn what tea is, how opium is made - and how The British pushed their way into a famously insular country. 

Sources:

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age - https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9780345803023

https://www.historyhit.com/ 

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