The opium wars

Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods, and used to produce heroin.
Also The first opium war or the first anglo chinese war was fought between the british east india company and the quing dinasty in china from 1839 to 1842 with the aim of forcing china to import British opium.The second opium war , the second anglo chinese war or arrow war was a war of the united kingdom and france against the qing dinasty of china from 1856 to 1860.

the white man's burden

The famous white man's burden was founded by Philippine Republic declared war upon the United States. The U.S. had refused to withdraw its troops following the surrender of Spain and also had refused to recognize the new Republic. also the prase the white man's burden was a phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rudyard kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color. This phrase It was originally published in the popular magazine Mc Clure's in 1899, with the subtitle of The united states and the philippine Islands.