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By selling which of the following items to China, did the British regularly collect money for purchasing tea from that country?
By selling which of the following items to China, did the British regularly collect money for purchasing tea from that country?
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The correct option is A Opium
Western merchants in the mid-eighteenth century began an illegal trade in opium. It was unloaded in a number of sea ports of south-eastern China and carried by local agents to the interiors. By the early 1820s, about 10,000 crates were being annually smuggled into China. While the English cultivated a taste for Chinese tea, the Chinese became addicted to opium.
Western merchants in the mid-eighteenth century began an illegal trade in opium. It was unloaded in a number of sea ports of south-eastern China and carried by local agents to the interiors. By the early 1820s, about 10,000 crates were being annually smuggled into China. While the English cultivated a taste for Chinese tea, the Chinese became addicted to opium.
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