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**World Regions: India**
Instructor: Daniel Ondich dan.ondich@sobrietyhigh.org

**What's Due for Lesson 13**
Video Version** |||| **On Nicenet:**
 * = **What's Due
 * none ||= **In you wiki:**
 * Create a new page titled "Trade and Colonization" || **Vocabulary:**
 * Mughal Empire
 * Mosque || **Other:**
 * none ||

**Step 1**:
 Add the day's vocab into your wiki. (see "What's Due" at the top of the page) //**write __only__ the definition for term in your own words**//.


 * Lesson 13**
 * Mughal Empire
 * Mosque

**Step 2**:
Log into your course wiki and create a new page titled "Trade and Colonization". Copy and paste the following discussion questions into your new page:


 * Answer each of the following questions using 1-2 complete sentences.**
 * 1) Why has India been an important center of trade?
 * 2) What importance did spices play in the development of trade? What eventually ended the European demand for Indian spices?
 * 3) What was the significance of Vasco da Gama's arrival in Calicut?
 * 4) Who did the British East India Company employ to assist the company in its domination of India?
 * 5) How might people of the United States react to a corporation being given the authority to govern another country?
 * 6) Why did the British push the development of railroads in India? What was the practical and symbolic nature of a British controlled railroad system in India?
 * 7) Why is the bureaucracy the British created to control India considered impressive?
 * 8) Why did the British allow the Indian National Congress to start meeting?
 * 9) Evaluate the new power of British Empire after the defeat of the French in India, North America, and Europe in 1763.

**Step 3**:
Return to __The Story of India__ and read all the information on the "[|Trade]" page and the "[|Colonization]" page and answer the questions in your course wiki.


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