2. What would you consider to be an illegal drug?
If the government allows the sale of it, do you still consider it a drug?
Propose a system for determining what is a drug.

3. Vocabulary British East India Company Opium
A company that was responsible for half of the world’s trade and was in charge of India at one point. The company had private armies and used brutal tactics to make money.
Opium
A highly addictive drug produced from the poppy plant. It is similar to heroin but usually smoked not injected.

5. Early Trade Largely self sufficient Portuguese arrive in 1557
British arrive in 1635
Trade kept to a few port cities

6. Opium Trade EIC sees potential profit Chinese and British smugglers
Banned in 1799
By 1838, 12 million addicts

9. Opium Den in Guangzhou, 1843

11. Chinese Response Read the “Letter Protesting the Opium Trade”
As you read, come up with five higher level questions.
What were some of Lin Zexu’s major complaints?
Using evidence from Lin’s letter, write a two to three paragraph response to the head of the British East India company to try and persuade him to give up the Opium trade
Merchants arrested
20,000 chests destroyed
War breaks out (Opium Wars) and Chinese lose

12. “Treaty of Nanking, 1842” Summarize the articles
Assess which of the requirements are fair and which are not.
Provide a justification for each of your answers.
Predict how this war and treaty might affect other countries.

14. “I Am” Poem (Left)
I am I wonder I hear I see I pretend I feel I touch I worry I cry I understand I say I dream I try I hope