Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table of the elements based on increasing atomic weight on March 6, 1869, in a presentation to the Russian Chemical Society. While Mendeleev's table was the first to gain some acceptance in the scientific community, it was not the first table of its kind.
In the end, the British sale of opium was used as means for  obtaining more land and trading rights from the Chinese, leading to  the devastation of the Chinese government and economy which is why  The First Opium War will be remembered in history as the time when  China was ultimately betrayed by the British.
The Treaty of Nanjing. Chinese and British officials negotiating the Treaty of Nanjing. Below please find a web question on the Treaty of Nanjing between the British and the Chinese at the end of the First Opium War in 1842.This was written by your classmate, Ori Izhaki.he Treaty of Nanjing was first unequal treaty that signed between China and Britain after the first Opium War defeat. Merchants were terrified rather to give British Army 500000 silver dollars to trade not occupied there home land. In addition, British thought that was not a bad idea to extort more money and lands.