China (notes)
Using the city of Guangzhou as their only trading port, the Chinese would only allow foreign traders to trade silver coins with only certain merchants of spices, rice, tea, or silk, all of which is known as this system.
What is the Canton System?
Great Britain preferred to smuggle this and exchange it for Chinese silk, tea, and spices since it was easily grown on large plantations in India and Afghanistan.
What is opium?
Some historians have argued that Great Britain's general philosophy towards the treatment of these peoples begins with the English/British treatment of the Irish.
What are native peoples?
in 1798, the United Irishmen were inspired by these events, and tragically failed in trying to overthrow British Rule over their island home.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
In 2016, Donald J. Trump won the Presidential Election with this man as his running mate, who became his Vice-President.
Who is Mike Pence?
When Lord McCartney encountered the Chinese Emperor, he refused to do this, a form of worship, as worship of anyone but Christ was considered a sin.
What is kowtow?
The Treaty of Nanking required the Chinese government to pay 6 million dollars in reparations to the British East India Company for destroying this much opium in 1839.
What is 2.6 million pounds of opium?
England conquered Ireland in the 1100s, but chose to allow the Irish these, rather than take direct control, preferring Ireland remain a vassal state.
What are Kings?
In the mid-1800s, the British Government created this kind of disaster in Ireland, which usually has natural causes, but like 1770 in Bengal, was entirely due to the economic policies imposed by Great Britain.
Torn between the political parties of the Old Guard and the New Men, the people of Rome looked to this populist leader to end the corruption of the Roman Senate, and after his death, demand he be named a god.
Who is GAIUS IULIUS QSR?
This dynasty began to open Chinese trade, though restricted trade to s single city and created monopolies on which merchants foreigners could trade with.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
Smoking pipes did predate encountering the Native Americans, but was usually seen as something common in Europe and the Old World. However, the smoking of opium was introduced to this class of people in China by the rich and powerful of Java, an island of Indonesia.
What are the nobility?
Great Britain has banned many things the Irish people valued, from wearing the color Green to speaking their native language of Gaelic, and even banned people from doing this in bars as it was considered treasonous.
In 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood chose this date to launch a violent uprising in Dublin, Ireland, with the hope of sparking a grand revolution that tragically did not come about.
What is Easter Monday?
When Dr. Dre broke away from Death Row Records, he founded this record label that started the careers of Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, along with many, many others.
What is Aftermath Entertainment?
It was due to their influence and long history of conquering China, that the Chinese became highly xenophobic, refusing foreign influence and religions.
Who are the Mongols?
The Daoguang Emperor failed to consider that the British military was this, compared to the matchlock rifles and wooden junk boats the Chinese military used.
What is more (technologically) advanced?
Due to the Irish people's long hatred of English and British rule, the terrorist organization known as the Provisional IRA was heavily allied with these organizations that also rebelled against the effects of British colonialism.
What are Islamic Terrorists?
In the end, Ireland won its independence from Great Britain, but allowed Great Britain rule over 7 counties, which were mostly Protestant, a region now known as this.
What is Northern Ireland?
Having studied under Vincent McMahon, Sr. at the WWWF, Dusty Rhodes and Sam Mutchnik at NWA, a young Paul Heyman became the promoter/booker for this three letter wrestling organization based out of Philadelphia.
What is ECW?
The Qing Dynasty chose special names for each Emperor, as they were believed to be divine, and the Emperor at the time of the Chinese conquest by Great Britain held this name, which means "Radiant Path".
What is Daoguang?
If China misses one of their three year repayments to Great Britain, the Treaty of Nanking puts this penalty on the next payment.
What is 5% interest?
At the height of the Irish War of Independence, the IRA received most of its funding from the United States by taking up collections in these places where Irish Immigrants and Irish-Americans would often gather after a hard day's work.
What are bars?
At first, the Irish were given a Free State that remained within the British Empire according to this treaty, which only kicked off the Irish Civil War between Unionists (Pro-Treaty) and Republicans (Anti-Treaty) which ended in the famous Partition that created the Republic of Ireland.
What is the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
In the TV series Babylon 5, writer/creator J. Michael Straczynski paraphrased Carl Sagan by having the character Delenn declare, "We are this. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out."
What is star stuff?