The Opium Wars - Simplified | History Teacher Reacts | Things I Care About
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Things I Care About @ThingsICareAbout tells the animated story of the Opium Wars, the biggest drug war in history! Britain got China hooked on Opium and did NOT like it when China tried to enforce a ban on it. This will be the beginning of the end for China's final empire. Mr. Terry gets to add a lot more on the way.
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The world is experiencing a 1 T trade deficit with China in 2024.
Because UK wants Chinese products. But China doesn't need UK products.
Yeah; as an old opiate addict, I can confirm: The withdrawal symptoms suck dookie. 😖
Thats narcotics for you
5:45 I mean; with all that vast territory, it’s exceptionally likely that a disaster would hit somewhere, in that territory, pretty often.
Frequency like bad harvest .Very uncertain. So the governors just pray that there will be no bad rights during their term of office.
When there's money to be made, it starts out as "criminal" and ends up as "Trade"!
A dowager isn't a female regent. A dowanger holds her husband title and lands in her own right, not as a place holder for a minor heir.
I think China could, in theory, still have avoided the century of humiliation after the first opium war, IF they'd somehow done their modernisation as aggressive, fast and uncompromising as Japan did after they had a bunch of similar unequal treaties forced upon them in the 1870s, but I admit that there are two holes in that hypothetical that probably make it too unrealistic to ever happen. First, Japan had the benefit of seeing what taking half-measures did to your country when they looked at China, so they were ridiculously commited to modernising basically all aspects of their state and utterly steamrolling any opposition from the old social order. To believe that a chinese dynastic government would have been willing to be that aggressive in the 1840s and 50s, without knowing in advance what not doing so would cost them, strains credibility. Second, Japan, though no one planned it, was simply better structured for modernisation (with the benefit of hindsight) when it got going. Not being the nr.1 power in Asia for centuries meant that the japanese elite wasn't quite as stubborn and arrogant and resistant to change as their chinese counterparts were. The old feudal system meant that the emperor could ally with the very rich but disfavoured merchant class, always eager for social advancement, use his 'divine' status to mobilise enough of the people to overthrow the old shogunate and the daimyos, abolish the class system, and then pretty swiftly impose that social, political and economic revolution from the top down without a bunch of conservative influential scholars and bureaucrats getting in the way. And finally they had the luck of Meiji being truly an S-tier ruler who reigned as long and competently as he did.
After the second opium war and the taiping rebellion..... yeah China was doomed whatever they did. 1842-1856 was their chance, and they failed to seize it. Honestly it's surprising they weren't totally dismantled and conquered at the hands of Britain and Russia like India and Central Asia were. Though I can understand why 'merely' being exploited, bled dry and repeatedly and intentionally humiliated didn't feel much better for the chinese, either back then or today. It's kinda hard to blame them for being just a wee bit distrustfull of the west after all that.
Japan sees what is happening in China And they realized that putting up resistance was futile.Remembering the gun boat Amaeika facing the imperial palace in Tokyo bay.
When people gawk at how harsh modern Chinese anti corruptions are, they should consider that corruption killed every Chinese government for 5000 years. New boss don't wanna end up like the old one
The people are the boss in China. The Communist Party IS the people.
It is to keep their totalitarian regime propped up.
Why they even have corruptions
The Podcast "Last Podcast on the Left" are covering the voyage of the Batavia from the 1600's right now, and the Dutch actually sound ESPECIALLY brutal at that time. Not to mention, they shifted cultural dynamics in Rwanda so much that the resulting animosity led to the Rwandan Genocide (I think it was the Dutch who had Rwanda as a colony, hope I'm not wrong about that). So I don't think it's quite accurate to say they meddled in cultures less or were less antagonistic, so I'm thinking the Catholic thing you mentioned might be more on the money as far as why other countries accepted trade with them over the others
The lesson here, kids, don't mess with Britain.
FYI, the background music from 5:29 onward was taken from Runescape. Fun Fact.
oh yaaaa new Mt Terry!
oh yes, Mount Terry, my favorite :D
There is actually some part I am being wondering:
If China was so isolated, how can they communicate with British, Dutch, Portuguese, and French on first contact? I do not think they can like speak their language no?
Isolation here is not accepting other cultures.Not open main.
Even though Japan was closed and only traded with the Netherlands.
Traders from China, Korea, Taiwan can come to Japan without any problems .
Even traders from Central Asia, Russia, Iran and Turkey still traded with the Qin Dynasty Through the silk road.
@IndustrisasiIndonesia Thank you for the answer.
Have you heard of the "War of Jenkins Ear?"
What goes around, comes around!
Mr. Terry the correct term in 35:54 is Extra Territoriality
49:00-ish Yeah, if you say 'you can't negotiate with us' to a way more powerful nation who's already won a war against you recently, you're basically inviting them to invade you.
“Extra History “ did some videos on this topic too.
Strat: Be a patron of a channel Mr. Terry watches, so your name shows up in two places.
Let’s go really old school and do oral exams all the time
Mr terry can you react to more of things i care about vids ? Love your reaction ❤
You probably misspoke but opium is not an hallucinogenic. It is a narcotic. Thank Nick for bringing me here 😂
It's a very fascinating story
Read "Tai-Pan" by James Clavell.
@MrTerry don't forget opium is also used in modern day pharmaceutical to create painkillers
Morphine
Gotta say this war this looks worse as time goes on. Fighting for the right to sell drugs 😂
Freedom to do what we want as long as we are not hurting anyone. Someone in chronic pain just calls it pain management.
5:30 especially if a certain dam were to be fed to a B-2 spirit stealth bomber
Sorry to be picky it dowager simply means a widow who has title or lands by virtue of her dead husband. It has nothing to do with regency which is ruling for a minor child.
No offense to the ThingsICareAbout team, but so much of this uses the same style, music, and general approach of Oversimplified that it's like I'm looking at a Great Value brand Oversimplified video. 🤣
He legit says he’s inspired by him. It’s good history content, why be mad?
@@warren_cf1785you both make good points.
How are artist to learn and create art if they don’t first imitate their influences?
On the other hand, the clear influence degrades the feeling of authenticity that is vital to Oversimplified videos. Watching others pretend to be someone else will never compare to the original.
Give the kid time to create his own voice and animation style
@@charlieh1932 to be fair, TICA is actually diversifying away from oversimplified’s art style, seeing that his character models have been increasing in their detail compared to his first ever videos.
Also, to be fair, he is doing different subjects.
Hey lad, Im the lead animator for TICA. Yes we are inspired by Oversimplified but to be blunt as an artist myself, Oversimplified doesnt own 2d animation. We are inspired by his 2d/comedic approach to history but it ends there. I myself am also a big fan of Oversimplified, but if you look at our new art direction its moved along way from being oversimplied's style. As for music well yeh we use the same artist, but its copyright free music, Thousands of people do.
Let's hear it for Terrence of Arabia.
Please Mr. Terry react to SimpleHistory stuff like Soldier Bear
Think about it with a modern perspective. A Major power, as they thought, forced by a " forieghn" power who sold them "exogenous Ligands", Drugs!
And then when they object, send in the Gunboat. Plus ca change! 😃😭
Palmerston was based literally made the term gunboat
I had to nope out when "Malthusian crisis" was mentioned. That is a MAJOR red flag. Malthus' theories are not well regarded among many scholars. The modern-day proponents of Malthusianism very often use rhetoric around overpopulation in bad faith. Putting those words in bold letters on the screen as if it is something that historians widely agree on is misleading and super sketchy.
I completely agree with the problems surrounding Malthusianism. With that said, Malthus had an enormous influence on British policy during the period in question. While I don’t know as much about the Opium Wars specifically, it wouldn’t be out of character at all for the British at the time to frame a crisis in Malthusian terms.
That's skipping over the key context that Malthus was talking about Ireland. Ireland's problem wasn't overpopulation, it was largely imperialism. In principle, it isn't impossible for a group of people to grow too large and run out of resources. The issue with Malthus is that he claimed
a. that this problem creates an unavoidable cycle of starvation, and
b. that helping the Irish during the potato famine would be futile and only prolong the suffering.
This theory, when applied to Ireland in his time, is ridiculous. The Irish weren't starving because there were too many people, they were starving due to blatant discrimination in property law leaving them without enough land to feed themselves with anything but potatoes. The concept of carrying capacity is not at issue; that's just established ecology.
I think in the modern context India cud be a victim of the malthusian crisis
@@bakabaka98573 while the use of the term was in poor taste, the meaning was pretty clear: there was a resource crunch, which meant that the incomes declined, leading to poor revenue and tax collection, creating a drain on the treasury.
As a History Teacher what you think of these 4 years in America? What do you think in the next 100 years they will say and how will they judge?
That's how HSBC was made, I think. 😬
MR terry I expect u to be the brother of Jesus
China is not lacking in resources... except for the one that matters, OIL! Many think 2 things are preventing them from expanding against the west; making high end semiconductors (replica of TSMC being built in China by 2027 and Arizona by 2030) and OIL via the Malaka Straight near Singapore/Burma. They need to quell Myanmar and finish the oil pipeline thru it to bypass Malaka.
The real question is whether or not either China or the US manage to successfully replicate what TSMC can do in terms of cutting edge chip fabbing. Things will go very very differently depending on how that particular venture plays out.
So TICA does not even wirtes texts?
I love opium
I wrote a published paper on Indus valleys fall if you're interested Mr Terry
It was the flooding btw
I appreciate ThingsIcateabout trying to explain events however I feel they have a very anti-western bias tbh
First time I saw this creator was when vlogging through did his Korean War vid
Absolutely anti-western and anti-capitalist. Which, fine, everyone has their own biases and beliefs, but he's letting it seep into his content and what he passes as facts vs opinions. It's interesting from a "what does the opposite perspective have to say" kind of view, but not when he introduces these biases and then says his version is the truth without any propaganda
When you've grown up on a steady diet of nothing but pro-western propaganda, anything that doesn't start with the premise that the West is perfect and wonderful and always on the right side of history is going to seem "biased" BUT you're actually the one whose implicit bias is in play here.
please react to Korean war by things i care about
Watch Mr terry claim he’s the brother of Jesus Christ now
22 hours😢
Opium is not a hallucinogenic drug...
Please stop with these translated titles, they are horrible and misleading.
Otherwise, great videos looking forward to this one, i assume it will be in english in contrast to the title.
Too be fair the Emporer was most definitely not the son of heaven. Seems like arrogance on both sides to blame
So the kings of English king hallucinated that they were the heads of the English church.
@@IndustrisasiIndonesia The interesting thing is that both West and East (Japan and China) used the supernatural to make their claims to power valid. West had the Divine Right of Kings where the story was that the King rules because God chose him. In the East the idea was that the Rulers were descended from some powerful and wise beings and had the Mandate of Heaven to rule. Then there is Egypt where they had a similar approach where the Pharaoh was essentially a living god.
@@HubiKoshi Chinese empire is not the leader of Religion.The majority of Chinese are Buddhist .
Students should be allowed to use AI in essays
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I just love this history!Brings me great pride as a Chinese to know my country almost crippled the British Empire in many factors!
1. The British government was going BANKRUPT from buying all this tea from China
2. Due to money problems and etc., you often had tea shortages in the UK and etc(maybe?j You even had RIOTS over this!
And as far as I know, this is the only time in history we’ve had a war FOR drugs. And as an American who grew up with DARE and etc. this blows my mind.
Edit:
Forgot to add,there was an earlier incident before the Opium Wars that should’ve given the Qing officials a HUGE red flag regarding their navy. Not a plug, ut look up Extra History’s Chang I Sal!
Why would you feel pride over your ancestors being drug addicts?