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Ep 110 - Smoke 'em if you got 'em!: The Opium Wars
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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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