Not a reliable source here, I had to take an eastern world history class between 1500 - 1900 in college and I very much didn’t want to be there. Opium was big product in west china from the poppy plants and seeds that grew easily there. So the times I know of they were using ships for some trade already. There was a divided nation and Japan was known for coming in and pillaging and fucking things up over and over. Britain came into the scene, took advantage of that, and established a colonial trade of tea. Opiate use was used as a way to control the local people, at times, made illegal at times. It was just a cluster fuck for decades and a bit of the reason opium isn’t normalized in Europe today as eastern cultures grabbed back power over their industries. Idk. You are better off going on a Wikipedia dive!
Not a reliable source here, I had to take an eastern world history class between 1500 - 1900 in college and I very much didn’t want to be there. Opium was big product in west china from the poppy plants and seeds that grew easily there. So the times I know of they were using ships for some trade already. There was a divided nation and Japan was known for coming in and pillaging and fucking things up over and over. Britain came into the scene, took advantage of that, and established a colonial trade of tea. Opiate use was used as a way to control the local people, at times, made illegal at times. It was just a cluster fuck for decades and a bit of the reason opium isn’t normalized in Europe today as eastern cultures grabbed back power over their industries. Idk. You are better off going on a Wikipedia dive!
damn, that was a long course you took!
Don’t speak to me like that, mortal.