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Subject: Opium Timeline
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jlh1182 23.03.10 - 06:37pm
opiods.com/timeline/index.html.. This highlights the trade of opium throughout recorded history.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 06:40pm
'Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real'.. Andre Malraux- MANS FATE.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 06:47pm
3400BC.. Mesopotamian cultivation of the poppy. Sumerians refer to it as 'Hul Gil'- Joy Plant.. Knowledge of cultivation and production passes to the assyrians, babylonians and egyptians.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 06:53pm
1300BC.. Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes grows Opium Thebaic*m in their famous poppy fields. Trade flourishes in the reign of Tutmoses IV, Akhenaton and Tutankhamun with trade routes including Phoenician and Minoan trading to Greece, Carthage, and Europe.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 07:01pm
1100BC.. Cyprus Peoples of the sea use surgical culling knives to harvest opium.. 460BC.. The father of medicine Hipocrates dismisses magical attributes but acknowledges its use as a narcotic and styptic in treating diseases.. 330BC.. Alexander the great introduces opium to peoples of Persia and India.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 07:09pm
400AD.. Egyptian poppy product is introduced to china by arab traders.. 1020AD.. Avicenna of Persia teaches that opium is the most powerful of supificiants.. 1200AD.. Ancient Indian medical scripts 'the shodal godanigrah samahrta' and 'the dhanvantri highantu' describe medical properties of opium.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 07:16pm
1300AD.. Opium disapears from european historical record for 200yrs and was deemed a taboo during the period of Holy Inquisition as in their eyes anything from the east was 'evil'.. 1500BC.. Portuguese open trade routes through the east china sea and introduced the method of smoking which chinese deemed as barbaric.. * +

jlh1182 23.03.10 - 07:22pm
1527AD.. Parecelsus introduces opium to european medical litrature in the form of Laudanum pills that were dubbed 'stones of immortality' and marketed as painkillers.. 1600AD.. Residents of persia and india begin eating and drinking opium, the portuguese direct their trade through india to china.. * +

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