India
What is the name of the weather pattern which dominates Indian life?
Monsoon
What was the key Indian city that Babur captured in 1526?
Delhi
Who was the first Portuguese mariner to reach India?
Most Portuguese went to India hoping to be made a what?
Fidalgo
Who was the English rival in India for control of the Spice Trade?
Dutch
What religion were the Mughals?
Muslim
What weapon did the Mughals possess that the Indians did not?
Muskets
What was the name of the economic system that Portugal practised?
Mercantilism
What was the name of the Red Sea Port that the Portuguese could not capture?
Aden
The East India Company was the second of which type of company?
Joint Stock Company
Approximately how much of the World's GDP did India control at the beginning of the sixteenth century?
25% (20%-30%)
From which modern country did the Mughals originate?
Uzbekistan
What did the Portuguese force all ships to purchase if they wanted to trade in the Indian Ocean?
Cartaz
Portuguese aggression brought them into an eighteen-year war with what empire?
Ottoman
After being forced out of the spice trade, the English had to concentrate on trading which commodity?
Textiles
Who were at the bottom of the Caste system?
Untouchables
Who was the first Mughal Emperor?
Babur
What was the name of the coast from which the Spices came?
Malabar Coast
What was the system where all ships had to sail under Portuguese protection?
Carreira
The English failed to find a route to India via which route?
North-West Passage
Who/what were the Naqshibandis?
Who/what were the Naqshibandis?
Who was the queen of Jahangir who effectively ruled in his place?
Nur-Jahan (Mihr)
What was the name of the pilgrim ship that the Portuguese attacked?
The Miri
The capture of what city in modern Malaysia brought the Portuguese into conflict with China?
Malacca
Who was the first English ambassador to the Mughal Empire?
Sir Thomas Roe