0
That is a mighty big question no one realy knows they have found it 4-5000 years ago through archialogy and was even used by the great Doc. Galin in treatment of his pacients in Rome. But through out history of humans at least when we left the neolithic era and forged into agriculture it has been around perhaps longer, predating recorded history so that question is like asking who invented fire.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoOpium originated in the Mesopotamia region. The earliest writings that mention opium date back to 3400 B.C. The Sumerians called opium the joy plant.
Wiki User
∙ 15y agoCarbon-14 dating has dated opium as far back as 4200 B.C.
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoa bunch of jungle monkeys in the desert their names were Luke and mason search them up!
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago- Chinese governement allowed trade during the 1700s. European merchants began to bring opium into China during the late 1700s.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Which comany invented the computer floppy disc in 1970?
i think OPIUM and IBM
When were sedatives invented?
Probably hundreds of millenniums ago, when the first early hunter-gatherer happened upon an opium poppy. Sedatives were not invented, they were discovered.
Were the British defeated by the Chinese in the Opium War?
Chinese were isolated for a long time while, British invented many weapons which let Great Britain defeat China in the Opium War.
When did opium war happen?
There were 2 Opium Wars, the First Opium War was from 1839-1842 the Second Opium War was from 1856-1860
Is there opium in methadone?
No there is no opium in Methadone
What is the origin of opium?
opium poppies
Where did the British get their opium before and during the opium wars?
they got it from India then manufactured the opium
How did Britain seek to correct it's balance of trade with China?
selling opium
What were the Opium Wars about?
The tea and Opium trade
How do you spell opium?
Opium, you spelled it correctly.
What is opium poppy?
The opium poppy is a type of plant in which opium and poppy seeds come from. Opium is where many narcotics like morphine, are taken from.
Crude opium is obtained from which part of the opium poppy?
Crude opium is made of the opium poppy's latex. This latex is obtained by cutting the unripe pod of the plant.
