H.W. #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 a mogul empire in India.

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

6. They had to pay a special tax, had their temples destroyed.

7. The British East India Company then came to India.

8. They started to take over in 1707.

9. To control the resources directly instead of getting it through trade.

10. To transfer resources and raw materials from villages to port and manufactured goods back to the villages from the ports, but the first train was used to transfer construction material from a place called Roorkee.

11. This was a positive in the sense that people had better means to travel and could move from place to place faster. Apart from that trains were first used only for resources so the roads were the primary way of travelling by carriges, horses, etc.

12. 12% of the population was Muslim.

13. 82% was Hindu

14. People rebeled because they thought that the cartiges provided by the british contained animal fat of cow and pig.

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

16. They were sentenced to prisonment in jail, hanged or were blown apart in cannons.