Relatively large amounts of this commodity were found at a Spanish Bronze Age site known as the "Bat Cave" near Granada.
Relatively large amounts of this commodity were found at a Spanish Bronze Age site known as the "Bat Cave" near Granada.The Chinese writer Xu Boling records that the Chenghua Emperor of the Ming Dyansty ordered this commodity to be purchasedat equal the price of gold. Several centuries later, Engelbert Kaempfer described a variant of this called madak. Thealchemist Paracelsus mixed gold and citrus juice with this substance to create his "Stones of Immortality." A letter written bythe court official Lin Zexu laments that "every province of his land" overflows with this substance, and shames the addresseefor endorsing the sale of this commodity while it is illegal in her country. The HMS Nemesis was key to victory in some conflicts fought over this commodity, which resulted in the burning of the Summer Palaces and the signing of the Treaties ofTientsin and the Treaty of Nanking. For 10 points, give this powerful drug created from poppy plants, the namesake of twowars between China and Great Britain.
Relatively large amounts of this commodity were found at a Spanish Bronze Age site known as the "Bat Cave" near Granada.
opium [or opiates; accept reasonable equivalents; prompt on "Drugs" or "Narcotics," etc.]