The Martian Chronicles:
History Behind the Chronicles
Imperialism of Free Trade
1815-1870
By the mid-19th century, Britan had become the leading world power in trade and faced little competition to it, they began
to abuse this power then by expanding thier empire even more, creating large sphere's of influence and controling other
smaller countires with thier welth. This British commercial expansion in Asia eventually lead to the Opium Wars, when the
Chinese government tried to stop British merchants from illegally importing opium. Britan also gained much informal power
in South America as many of Spain's colonies bacame independent.
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