HW#2

1)How big is India?
1.2 million square peninsula.

2)What is it's relative location (between which bodies of water)
The Bay of Bengal is on the west and Arabian Sea on the East.

3)What "raw materials" are among their crops?
Raw Materials such as tea, indigo, coffee, cotton, and jute were among their crops.

4)Who was the MUSLIM ruler who started the Mogul Empire in 1522?
Barbar

5)Who attacked the Moguls in the 1600s?
The Martha people of west central India.

6)How were the Hindus treated by the Muslims after this attack?
They had to pay a special tax and their temples were destroyed
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7)What British Company came to India in the 1600s?
The British East India Company.

8)When did that company start to take over?
The East India Company started to take over in 1757 after the Mughal Empire collapsed.

9)Why?
They wanted to control the resources India had instead of getting them through trade.

10)They built the trains. What were the trains used for?
Trains were used to trasnfer raw products for villages to the ports and brought manufactured materials back.

11)They also built roads that helped people communicate. Was this a positive? (your opinion) please explain
I think it was a positive thing because people could comunicate with each other easily and travel from a place to another more frequently.

12)What percentage (%) of India was Muslim?
12% of India was Muslim.

13)What percentage was Hindu?
82%  of India was Hindu.

14)Why did the Sepoy Rebellion start?
 It started because the British lacked respect for the religions of India.
15)WHERE did it start?
It started in Meerut.

16)What was the punishment for the people who rebelled?
They were sentenced to 10 years in prison.