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.
When Russia and Britain established spheres of influence in Persia, they gained. joint control of Persia's economy. As a result of the Crimean War, the Ottoman Empire became more reliant on Britain and France because. Britain and France helped the empire win the war.