How The British Used Opium To Cripple An Ancient Superpower | Empires Of Silver (Full Series)
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- China was at a time the world's most powerful nation, dictating the value and commodities traded across the globe. However, that all came tumbling down with the opium wars. Discover how these conflicts re-shaped the globe and the unique set of events that led up to these monumental conflicts.
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Excellent documentary. I was glad to hear mention made of Sir Robert Hart and his activity as a sincere friend of China. The drug trafficking of the East India was despicable and the darkest chapter in the history of the British Empire.
I've been waiting for this to see the light of day! Thank you!
This was fantastic!
This is the most in-depth documentary I have ever seen about the British 19th Century opium trade to China without a single reference to its central subject until more than halfway through. Context they say is everything.
So silver is a gateway drug???
Gold fever
Yes it is.
Why does the docu say trade in silver existed thanks to China.
Only someone on drugs could get such an epiphany
No free trade and privatization is.
Jeeeeeeesuschrist - pot down the goddamn music (and other assorted noises). Who needs that?
Absolutely beautiful and amazing... The most indepth account I have ever heard of this moment in time... If lucky you only hear a few moments long ago... Well done .. highly recommend in one sitting, than 10 different sources
The Manchu dynasty ceded a lot more territory to the Tsar of Russia then to Britain. And why does little remain of the Howqua fortune might have been something to do with the civil war and the communist revolution. This documentary sells a bit of a narrative. The summer palace wasn't destroyed after delagation members had been imprisoned, tortured and killed.
I learned so cery much thank you 😊
Thanks for great video!
Student Protests: from Vietnam to Palestine!.......
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luxury items has replaced as the modern day opium
You have no idea my fry😅p
And Pedo-feed.
No. Fentynal has. China now floods the west with Fentynal & amphetamines or precursors. They didn't forget their "thousand years of shame "
Loved it
How accurate and truthful are such documentaries ? I can only saw these stir up animosity among race and countries. To be avoided.
No it’s true the British are the world’s thieves 😢
Lol why click on a history video if you don’t want to learn about history… I mean I think the hope is to learn from the lessons of history not just pretend nothing bad ever happened
Wokeness enters the chat..
Quite accurate, only holding back on the scale at certain junctures.
We're stoked about the content but you HAVE to ditch the action movie music.
Please realize that a HUGE number of us use these long-form docs to relax and even sleep to, so we don't need constant sensory stimulation too keep our attention.
Haaaa I notice there’s some Brits today who want a fight!
British history who are all the problems of the world.even today's Palestine problems done by british.numerous histories all you can watch and know who is the problemsome British.thanks
Lord Elgin is the epitome of British Imperial hubris and his destruction of the Summer Palace along with his name associated with the Parthenon marbles may play a significant role in Britains ongoing reputation in world affairs throughout the future.
The background music is annoying. Had to switch it off after ten minutes.
How
No. Your deaf
Yes, music too loud, & don't need it anyway.
Some of these channels really don't get it. They're stuck in the History Channel mode of operation. They see channels like Fall Of Civilizations with 3.5 hour-long videos and think 'Yeah, we'll do long videos too!' But the reality is we all want something we can relax to - we don't need 3 hour-long Tiktok videos for people with ADHD.
Tons of use these videos as sleep aids too, when not actively listening to it.
Interesting
Read the comments… they go a long way in describing our current situation. History is treated like a comic book series. Sad!
you see the corollary inverse in fentanyl, do you not?
Why the shit music? Tge documentary may be good but 2 minutes in and it’s unlistenable.
Remember history
Absolutely amazing documentary. Extremely educational. The Brits up to no good as per usual.
And they are not the only ones.
@garlickebagg Certainly not, but they were the main protagonists.
Empires are all the same through the ages. Run by bureaucratic bullies one and all. Love of and need for POWER !!! Some people will do anything for POWER !!!! Tough for some people to accept who and what they really are. Killing the competition is not winning the contest.
Fentynel.
I want reparations for the Peruvians from Spain and China for all the silver ,they never benefitted from.
Actually the trade was monopolized by the Sassoon family, who were far from British.
OMG, a jew from Baghdad
Those Brits are some clever folk.
No, they were and are still evil folks with no humanities.
Is there anywhere hearing and listening are definitively separated with respect to chronology?
I never heard of any complaints from the chines e everywhere around the world, they just out grind their competitors, RESPECT!
And it is taking a toll on them, they work 9-9-6 , 9 AM - 9 PM 6 days a week. And that is expected from all Chinese people. Slavery my friend, even Korean and Japanese dedicate their life to their job. Now, no country can compete with that. Ever wonder why so many Chinese are escaping to US or Europe? because they want to avoid this. Chinese population is in a free-fall now.
i want some
Superb documentary Worst sound effects no need at all
Be proud of your British
Anything the British touched a long time ago turned into blood.
Just like platinum is gold to us mexikans
You mean tortillas
both the great empires of chaina n india had gone into decline and by the time invaders from the mideast n the west reached their shores had already become very dilapidated. and throwing on the last invaders is not going to help. propagate without using the blame game.
opium was legal in england at the time
then don't send it to China
And in america too.
But the guy who monopolized the trade wasnt british, he was a JEW from Baghdad. Sassoon was his name.
NO! IT'S OPIUM////DAVID SASSOON////JOHN ASTOR////MATTHEWSON///JARDIN////
All jews or just sassoon?
Wasn't much about opium. I have watched entire video and didn't learn about the opium.
Nice entertainment
Still a thing today.
They're getting the West back in kind today.
Yeh it’s the silver not the skill of the people - we are so stupid
THE BEST OF THE WEST/////
The Emperor's Summer Palace built off of the backs of slaves.
Well played Britain.
Provide the evidence. Don't divert from the opium issue.
@@frankyong2607 Simple logic.
Blacks were exploited by the Spanish to withdraw copious amounts of silver from South America.
This silver was accepted by the Chinese silver trade and the Summer Palace could never have been built without the precious metal: silver.
Chinese still exploit Africans.
@@frankyong2607 You didn't need to take opium ,you chose to indulge.
You encouraged Spain to use black slave trade,by changing copper coins to silver coins.
You need to pay the South Americans for this theft.
The Brits did more for the wold than china ever did !!!
@smroog
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Empires are all the same through the ages. Run by bureaucratic bullies one and all. Love of and need for POWER !!! Some people will do anything for POWER !!!! Tough for some people to accept who and what they really are. Killing the competition is not winning the contest.
replay: fentanyl 21st century USA.
think about it.
God is love, praying for all.
This is an old program re re re done
Taught Chinese a lesson in humility
They now flooding the us with fentanyl
haha yall the ones who showed up from thousands of miles away....
Looks like it's America's turn coming soon.
Rather, it shows what violent hypocrites the British are.
THE RUSSELL FAMILY...😘🤫😉
Who? What? When?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
whats really hilarious to a point, but sad is they're doing right back to the UK and really bad the US in the USA
Karma
Reverse opium war
SUBTITLES ARE WORTHLESS ON a CELLPHONE!
So are all CAPS
oh boy…
Works on mine
Get a bigger phone 🙃
Don’t buy ur cellphone from Walmart
I highly doubt it was only THE BRITISH... Huh "history"??
They didn't say that, they said there were at least two Americans also but the British started it... Don't take it personally
@@MsLilsweets i'm not British. American, British... Always have had someOnes actively participating of this dubious endeavours hidden in the shadows...
@@objetivista686 I am American and unfortunately I have to agree with you...
@@objetivista686who is that in the shadows, exactly?
@@-CelShader- all the powerful group(s) who decide our lives without any permission or consent.
And now chinas doing it to the US with fentanyl lol. What goes around comes around huh??
I’m allowed to say lol, I’m an American who was hooked on fentanyl for 4 years lmfao. 😂
Did they hold you down and force it on you? No,
you chose to Partake.
Just sayin.
Nothing to do with China
Chinese propaganda, don't be fooled by this imitation history.
Propaganda? This is true history 😅 read more ..
Any history written by China/ West, Islam is distort, lie, propaganda
Sounds like a great plan. Maybe the USA could. May our government wouldn’t do that