hw # 2 (mp3)

1) How big is India?  

India is 1.2 million square mile peninsula.

2) What is its relative location (between which bodies of water?)

The bay of bangel on the left and Arabian sea on the right.

3) What 'raw materials' are among their crops?

The raw materials among their crops are tea, indigo, coffee, cotton, and jute

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

The Muslim ruler who started the Mogul Empire was Barbar.

5) Who attacked the Moguls in the 1600s?

The Martha people of the west attacked the moguls in the 1600s.

6) How were the Hindus treated by the Muslims after this attack?

They were given a special tax and there temples were destroyed.

7) What British Company came to India in the 1600s?

The British East Indian Company came to India.

8) When did that company start to take over?

The company started to take over after the Mughal Empire collapsed in 1707.

9) Why?

They wanted India for its rich raw materials.

10) They built the trains. What were the trains used for?

The trains were used to haul construction materials.

11) They also built roads that helped people communicate. Was this a positive? (Your opinion) please explain

It was positive because this had also help with the rebellion to continue on forward and to help each person pass on something like information or something.

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 had lack respect for the religions of India.

15) WHERE did it start?

The rebellion had started in Meerut.

16) What was the punishment for the people who rebelled?

As punishment for the people who rebelled were placed in front of cannon and blasted to pieces.

hw #1 (mp#3)

1. Terms & Names 

Identify

1) Sepoy:  An army led by Indian soldiers

2)  “Jewel in the crown”:  the most valuable of all of Britain’s colonies.

3) Sepoy Mutiny:  An outbreak where rebel soldiers started the rebel from Delhi and continued north and central India.

4) Raj:  a British rule that was direct to a part of India.

2.   Cause & effect

Cause:  1) Decline of the Mughal Empire 2) Colonial policies 3) Sepoy Mutiny

Effect:  1) East Indian trading company grows. 2) Indians got to be in the middle class.  3) No trust between the British and the Indians.

3. How did imperialism contribute to unity and the growth of nationalism in India?

The Indians were all treated the same like slaves under the British and from there system changed to under British law and if any British man was to broke an Indian law it wouldn’t matter because the British was in control at that moment.

hw # 19

TERMS & NAMES

Identify

1) Industrial Revolution – the great increase of machine made goods.

2) Enclosure – new methods for seeding and harvesting

3) Crop Rotation- one of the best developments of the scientific farmers, the process improved on older methods of crop rotation.

4) Industrialization- the process of developing machine production of goods.

5) Factors of Production – resources needed to make goods and services that the industrial revolution needed.

6) Factory- large buildings that had machines in it to make stuff.

7) Entrepreneur-  a person who organizes.

hw # 16

1)  Terms & Names

Peninsular- A person born in Spain who was at top of the Spanish American society.

Creoles- Spaniards born in Latin America.

Mulattos- a mixed of European and African.

Simon Bolivar- a man who helped makes nations gain their independence.

Jose de San Martin- a general who also helped Latin American nations gain their independence.

Miguel Hidalgo- a priest from Dolores.

Jose Morelos- a strong leader who had lead a revolution for 4 years.

4)  In my opinion I disagree with that Spain had not right to go to South America and take over the land of each nation. The Spanish didn’t have the right to go there and take leadership over the people of South America, before they came and took over each nation had a leader or a king but then the Spanish came and make and had the classes that most people were in the last two.

HW # 15

1. What did he accomplish?

Simon Bolivar, he gave back land to people who lost it to the Spaniard monarchy.  He was president of Venezuela.

2.  Why was he so famous?

He helped many countries to gain their independence from the Spanish empire. He created the republic of Colombia.

3. Who did he work to defeat?

He had work to defeat the Spaniard monarchy.

4. What was he fighting for in the first place?

He was fighting for his home country Venezuela to free his people from the Spain.

5.  Name 5 countries that are mentioned in the video, and what he did in each of the five countries?

Venezuela, Colombia, Spain, Ecuador, Peru.