Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . eir inferiority. In spiteof this treatment Dutch and English merchants flocked toCanton, the sole port at which the Chinese emperor permittedregular commerce with foreign countries. Repeated efforts were made, particularly-by the English, toget into direct communication with the government at Peking,but they were steadily rebuffed and were only able to establishthe commercial relations which they sought by an armed con-flict in 1840, known as the Opium War
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . eir inferiority. In spiteof this treatment Dutch and English merchants flocked toCanton, the sole port at which the Chinese emperor permittedregular commerce with foreign countries. Repeated efforts were made, particularly-by the English, toget into direct communication with the government at Peking,but they were steadily rebuffed and were only able to establishthe commercial relations which they sought by an armed con-flict in 1840, known as the Opium War. The Chinese hadattempted to prevent all traffic in this drug, but the Englishfound it so profitable that they were unwilling to give up the * The picture opposite gives an example of cheap Chinese coohes received one fourteenth of one cent for hauling the shipup the Now the rocks have been cleared away by dynamite,and steamboats have displaced the coolies. The other picture showshow the thrifty Chinese have terraced the hills so that not a drop ofwater is wasted nor a foot of the fertile ground left Chinese Coolies hauling a Boat
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