Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/ten-minute-historys-store Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: Chris Fatta James Baker Richard Wolfe Cornel Mitchel Wildoer Joshua Perry Gagne Thomas Mitchell Bernardo Santos Joooooshhhhhh Matthew FuzzytheFair Daan ter Elst Byzans_Scotorius Spencer Smith anon Andrew Keeling João Santos My first ever non-10 minute episode. Fancy. This one is about the First Opium War which started after China banned the Opium trade and started enforcing it, much to the detriment of Britain. The war kicked off in 1839 and Britain mostly spent the next three years sailing up the Chinese coast obliterating any resistance they came across. In the end Britain won out and China could go back to having its society ruined by Opium addicts. Yay! Recommended book: The Opium War by Julia Lovell. This book's title may make it appear as if it only covers the Opium Wars but this book is about the entire history of Opium in China and is actually a pretty good overview of Chinese history from the Late Qing to the modern day. It's very well structured and not overly complicated.