Question

In the context of the Treaty of Nanjing, the East India Company discovered that _____ was a good product to trade with the Chinese because it was easy to ship, it produced high value to volume and weight ratios, and was addicted to customers.a) pepperb) betel nutc) rhubarbd) teae) opium

Answer 1

e) opium

Step-by-step explanation:

The East India Company established the monopoly on the opium cultivation in Indian province of the Bengal because of the tremendous growth in the demand of the opium in the China. In India, the company developed method of growing the opium poppies much cheaply and abundantly and transporting it to China.

Levels of the opium addiction grew so high which also formed a network of the opium distribution with connivance of the corrupt officials. It then began to affect imperial troops and the official classes which lead to opium war.