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Vasco De Gama set sail for India and soon reached the port of Calicut. Him and his crew were amazed by their spices, rare silks, and preciaous gems,
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The Empire was out of resources and millions of people were dieng of starvation. It was not united and it fell apart.
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began creating new innovations for agriculture such as the seed drill. This allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths.
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The East India Company was the leading power in India. This enabled Brittain to control trade.
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Gossip spread that the new rifles were greased with beef and pork fat which werre animals sacred to the Hindus and Muslims. They refused to use them. Because the British jailed the soldiers they started a rebellion. This caused a turning point in which Britain took direct command of India.
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a nationalist group who wanted self- government or independence in India
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A leaugue to protect Muslim Interests. They did not want to accept independence if it ment rule by the HIndu dominated congress party
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Laws that allowed the government to jail Indian protesters for as long as two years
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The British started firing at the crowd in Amritsar beacuse they did not allow public meetings. Indians then demanded independence.
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Gandhi was the leader of the independence movement. He urged the INC to follow a policy of noncooperation with the British government.
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Gandhi's teachings bleneded ideas from all the major world religions and he became leader of the independence movement. Instead of violence the taught noncooperation,
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The British created a law that only allowed Indian s to buy salt from the government so they went to the seacoast and began making their own salt.
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provoded local self-government and limited democratic elections but not total independence.
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the division of India into seperate Muslim and HIndu nations. (East Pakistan and West Pakistan)
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a british act that granted them independence.
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While in Delhi a Hindu extremist who thought Gandhi too protective of Muslims shot and killed him.
