How OPIUM Destroyed China's Greatest Empire
In this quiet journey through history, we explore how opium — a single, devastating trade — brought the Qing Dynasty, China’s greatest empire, to its knees. This episode of Boring History for Sleep drifts through the rise of the opium trade, the wars it sparked, and the slow unraveling of a once-mighty dynasty. From…
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