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