The Shift to Land Empires in Asia
Prototype: The Dutch Advance on Java
Pivot of World Empire:Rise of British Rule in India
Consolidation of British Rule
Social Reform in Colonies
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Who was doing what that they had to establish in the Americas?
The Europeans - Who had to build true empires in Asia.
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What was going on in the late 17th &early 18th centuries?
One of the earliest empires was being built that was peirced together buy the Dutch in Java.
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What did the rise of British as a land power in India resemble ?
It resembled the Dutch capture of Java.
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How did the entaglements develope?
They grew stronger and stronger.
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What did the British do ?
The British enforced the rigid divisions of the Hindu caste system.
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What is the word which is referred to the European division of Africa ?
Partition.
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Where were the Asian headquaters ?
The Asian headquarters were in Batavia on the northwest coast of the island in 1619.
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What are sepoys ?
Indian troops.
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What was happening to the Mughal Empire at the time?
The Mughal Empire broke down more fully in the last decades of the century.
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What were the the two religions that where the Christians afraid of offending?
Hindu & Muslim.
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Facts about the war ?
Wars were expensive, and direct administration of African or Asian possessions was even more so.
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What were the Dutch content to become and pay tribute to?
The Sultans of Mataram
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What did the sepoys make up a large portion of?
They made up a large portion of the rank-and-file troops in the armies of British India.
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What did the Dutch and English forced to adapt into, to survive the hot tropical environments of south and southeast Asia?
The ancient and sophisticated host culters of their Asian colonies.
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Until when did the British allow the Christians missionaries to preach in their territories.
Until the second decade of the 19th century.
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What was drawn into local power struggles ?
"Men-on-the-spot"
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What is the other name for king ? > = D
Sultan.
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What happened before the Indians dominated the region?
European pawns gradually emerged as serious rivals to the established Indian rulers.
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When did bungalows come into fashion?
In the 18th century.
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What did the misconduct of the nabobs result in?
It resulted in the catastrophic Bengal famine of1770.
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In the 18th century, what happened &why ?
A letter took months to reach it's destination and back. It took long because this way of contacting people was new and different.
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What did the sultans of Mataram control in the mid-18th century ?
The South central portions of Java.
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What did Clive do with all the money that was provided to him?
Clive bought off the nawab's chief general and several of his key allies.
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What did the Englishmen men delight in while they smoked their water pipes?
Indian "dancing girls"
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What were India's forests set aside for ?
They were set aside for "Scientific" Management.
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