East Meets West
In the year _______________, the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the younger daughter of Henry VIII, chartered the East India Company.
1602
The diamond shaped country that hangs down into the waters of the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. ______________ has a wonderfully rich and complex history and culture.
India
The Muslim and Hindu Indian soldiers, called __________________, who the company employed were concerned that a new type of bullet, using greased paper cartridges, which would have to be opened by the soldiers'____________ before loading, were contaminated with ____________ and_________________ greases.
sepoys
teeth
pig
cow
In the early 1800s, William Carey and his friends, ____________ ______________ and ________________ _____________, worked together to bring the gospel to the people of India.
Joshua Marshman
William Ward
______________ _______________ and his two friends did amazing work for the Kingdom of God. Their translation work brought the Word of God to the people of India in their own language.
William Carey
This company was made up of a group of London merchants who held high hopes of establishing a _____________ _____________ in the beautiful Indonesian islands situated between ________________ ______________ and ______________.
spice trade
Southeast Asia
Australia
At the time about which we are learning, the ______________ ______________, the ruling power since the Middle Ages, was coming to a close, but it was with the ____________ rulers that the East India Company set up trade.
Mughal Empire
Mughal
In _______________, violence erupted between the sepoys and the East India Company. This event, which is called the ______________ ______________, lasted into the following year.
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
William Carey, the ______________-_______________, became a prolific writer and Bible translator in India. He and his family lived near Calcutta, in the relative safety of the Danish settlement of __________________, where he and Joshua Marshman, another missionary-translator, and William Ward, a professional printer, worked together to establish the missionary organization.
shoemaker-preacher
Frederiksnagar
________________ was William Carey's older sister.
Polly
Europe, at this time, was split between the ______________ and the _________________, each struggling to become the world dominator. Elizabeth I of England was a ______________ who very much wanted to gain the edge on the gathering of riches from the ____________.
Catholics
Protestants
Protestant
East
The East India Company set up large trading outposts, many of which became cities that still exist today. The outposts, the cities of Bombay (now _______________), Calcutta (now _____________), and Madras (now _______________), were the shipping sites for highly valuable exports.
Mumbai
Kolkata
Chennai
The East India Company was dissolved and the ________________ _______________ took over the control of half of India, leaving the other half under the rule of several _______________ ________________. This is the beginning of a time in Indian history known as the ______________ _____________, or _______________ _______________.
British government
Indian princes
British Raj
British Rule
Carey's accomplishments include translating the Scriptures into ______________, _______________, Marathi, _____________, Sanskrit, and Assamese - all languages spoken in India - and involvement in urging the governments to outlaw several barbaric practices of the ____________ culture. His love for gardening and creatures led him to learn and teach about the indigenous flora and fauna of his new home.
Bengali
Oriya
Hindi
Hindu
Polly had watched her brother working at his ____________ _____________ making ______________. Over his workbench, he had hung a ___________ of the _____________, which he had made from a scrap of leather. As he made or repaired shoes, William prayed for the nations of the world. When William prayed, Polly prayed... and she kept on praying.
cobbler's bench
shoes
map
world
charter company
government
investors
In ______________, the East India Company defeated the French and Indian forces and gained control of ______________, a large and important area of India, thus adding to their land holdings.
1757
Bengal
__________ ____________ ______________ became the empress of India, bringing the official end to the Mughal Empire.
Britain's Queen Victoria
A weaver and preacher by trade, Joshua and his wife heard about the wonderful work that Mr. Carey was doing in India and asked to join him. In _____________, the couple moved to India to work with Carey. God had given Joshua an extraordinary gift for ________________ ______________, and it was this gift that helped him translate the Bible into many languages (including Chinese) in his lifetime. Like Mr. Carey, Joshua Marshman was used by God to accomplish foundational changes in the culture of India through the spreading of the gospel. The last of the ______________ trio, as these three friends were called, was the _______________ and minister William Ward.
1799
learning languages
Serampore
printer
Name the three major Indian cities we read about, with their British colonial names~
Calcutta
Madras
Bombay
The Portuguese held the preeminent position in this area because of a special treaty that divided the new, rich territories between the Catholic nations of _______________ and _______________.
Spain
Portugal
In the years between the mid and late 1700s, Britain sent governors to try to bring some semblance of order to the company's mess in India. One of these governors was English Lord ______________, who was the general who surrendered to General Washington at the end of the American Revolution in ______________. ________________ governed from ______________-_______________, bringing major reform to the company. Governor after governor brought change, some good and some not so good, to India. Some of them even expanded the rule of the East India Company . Throughout the early to mid-1800s, tensions between the company and the people of India were on the rise. Arguments about land and religion sparked animosity between both groups.
Cornwallis
1781
Cornwallis
1786-1793
At this time in history, the Indian Empire covered not only what is now the country of India, but also ______________, _______________, and _______________. All of this massive area became part of the British Empire. For the next _____________ ____________, Britain kept a firm hand of control on the people of India.
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Myanmar
90 years
Although he spent a considerable amount of his childhood in unhappy situations in England, _____________ _____________ returned to India in ________________. He procured a job as a journalist. He loved to watch the Indian culture around him, and as he observed, he wrote. Short stories and booklets of poetry rolled from his pen, and soon he became known in the literary world.
**Draw Mowgli and Kaa**
Rudyard Kipling
1882
Name the five colonial settlements established in India in the 1500s, the 1600s, and 1700s before British Rule was solidified.
**Draw each of their flags**
French settlements
English settlements
Portuguese settlements
Dutch settlements
Danish settlements