Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Chinese Coolies hauling a Boat. Q o V) Q u ZX u Expansion-of Europe in the Nineteenth Century 711 trade. When, in 1839, the Chinese government seized manythousand chests of opium and informed the British that thetraffic would have to stop, war broke out. The British, of course, with their modern implements of war-fare, were speedily victorious, and the Chinese were forced to

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