Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Hw#2

1) Area is 1.2 million miles square peninsula.

2) Arabian Sea in the west and Bay of Bengal in the West.

3) Tea, Indigo, Coffee, Cotton and Jute.

4) Barbor started the Mogul Empire in India.

5) The Martha people from the west central India started attacking.

6) They had to pay a special tax and they had their temples destroyed.

7) The British East India Company came to India.

8) They started to take over in 1707.

9) So they can control the resources directly instead of getting it through trade.

10) The trains were used to transfer resources and raw materials from villages to port and manufactured goods back to the villages from the ports.

11) I think this was a positive because people had better means to travel and could move from place to place faster.

12) 12% of India was Muslim.

13) 82% of India was Hindu.

14) People rebelled because the cartridges provided by the British contained animal fat of cows and pigs and it's against their religions to put such animals in their mouth.

15) It started in Meerut and eventually led to Delhi.

16) They were either sentenced to sent to jail, hanged, or were blown apart in cannons.

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