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This left many homeless and shrunk the tax base in half.
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They all attacked together which forced the military to be focused to the north
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In 1477, the vice president of the Ministry of War argued that "the expeditions to the West Ocean wasted tens of myriads (too may to count) of money and grain and moreover the people who met their deaths may be counted in the myriads.
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Britain began smuggling a very addictive narcotic known as Opium.
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In 1700 they only sent 200 chests of Opium.
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In 1819 the Britihs began distributing masssive amounts of Opium in order to eliminate the competiting and get even more people addicted.
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Britain's expanding sales of opium to China caused the Opium War of 1839 after China destroyed an opium shipment.
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The British sent 40000 chests of Opium.
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The war ended with a treaty in favor of the British.
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Faced major problems in creating the new China. Industrialization was down 50%, agriculture was down 25%. Devastated roads and rail systems.
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in 1953 and used propaganda such as pamphlets and newspapers to familiarize the people of the new communist China. They were trying to produce energy and hydroelectric power.
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Goal was self-sufficiency by increasing quotas in industry. But it failed because quotas were too high and the communes were too large.
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Mao was concerned that people didn't want Marxism. So he attacked Communists that wanted very slow changes. He created the little red book to show how they would get to Marxism and gained support from youth.
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Deng Xiaoping took over and relaxed the communisim to increase the economy.
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China becomes a major trading country with a great economy. 1.25 billion people.
