How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire | Empires Of Silver | Absolute History
The World's Silver Sink • A Glimmering Curse • The Middle Kingdom at its Peak
Video Chapters
- 0:04 The World's Silver Sink
- 1:13 A Glimmering Curse
- 2:21 The Middle Kingdom at its Peak
- 4:13 Britain's Desperate Trade Mission
- 7:00 The Kowtow Incident: A Clash of Empires
- 10:04 Canton: The World's Marketplace
- 11:29 Beating the West at its Own Game
- 12:47 Inside the Foreigners' Gilded Cage
- 14:38 The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of
- 16:15 An Unlikely Alliance with a New Nation
Original Output
0:04 The World's Silver Sink 1:13 A Glimmering Curse 2:21 The Middle Kingdom at its Peak 4:13 Britain's Desperate Trade Mission 7:00 The Kowtow Incident: A Clash of Empires 10:04 Canton: The World's Marketplace 11:29 Beating the West at its Own Game 12:47 Inside the Foreigners' Gilded Cage 14:38 The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of 16:15 An Unlikely Alliance with a New Nation Timestamps by StampBot 🤖 (289-how-the-opium-trade-destroyed-china-s-greatest-empire-empire)
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0:04 A discovery of pure silver in the Andes sparks global trade 0:20 China's emperor demands that all taxes be paid using silver 1:13 How the silver trade sows the seeds of China's destruction 2:21 China as the world's greatest economic and cultural empire 4:13 British merchants struggle finding goods that Chinese markets will buy 4:42 Britain launches a massive trade mission to meet the emperor 7:00 A tense moment as the British ambassador refuses to kowtow 7:50 The Emperor's famously dismissive reply to the British king's letter 10:04 The port of Canton becomes the cosmopolitan nexus of global trade 11:29 Chinese silversmiths imitate and undercut their Western counterparts with skill 12:47 The strict rules for Western merchants inside the 13 Factories 14:38 Meet Howqua a Chinese merchant who became the world's richest man 16:15 Howqua partners with merchants from the rising new power of America Timestamps by StampBot 🤖 (289-how-the-opium-trade-destroyed-china-s-greatest-empire-empire)