Mughal Empire

In 1497 Portuguese mariner Vasco Da Gama set sail to find a sea route to Asia. He went slowly down the West African coast, around the tip of South Africa, and up the East African coast and landed in Calicut, South India. They found an ancient and rich network of commerce that stretched from East Africa to China. Asia offered many tropical spices that were desired in Europe, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and pepper. These spices were used mostly as condiments and preservatives. Other…

The British first began moving into India by setting up trade posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. When the Mughal Empire collapsed, the British East India Company moved in and took over. The company had an army of sepoys run by British officers. India was treasured greatly by the British due to ir being a major supplier of raw materials and full of potential buyers for British made products. Although Britain's administrative control over India was efficient, leading to a massive increase in…

There were many benefits that came out of the Industrial Revolution. However, in the end, it resulted in more negative effects which outweighed the positive ones. The Industrial Revolution brought immediate negative effects including shifts of family life it and great damage towards the surrounding environment. Also, the Industrial Revolution had long term negative effects including the dangerous effects it had on the “new imperialism” many years later. When the Industrial Revolution got started…

As a result of this debt, trade became open in 1698, ending the Royal African Company’s individual significance in the presence of the empire. However it did still manage to contribute to the economy, which as a result helped fund efforts for imperial expansion, due to the 10% act, meaning 10% of other companies profits went to the Royal African Company until it’s liquidation. Despite its…

fortifications of cities weak and defenseless. It led to an arms race that reorganized political boundaries and shifted the mindset of Christian and Muslim regimes. While nation states were being built in Europe during the Renaissance, powerful Muslim empires were taking roots in North Africa, India and the Middle East. Safavid Persia rose in 1500 with the crowning of shah Ismail, but the glory days of its new capital Isfahan came under the leadership of Shah Abbas I (1587-1629). The capital’s…

were previously unheard of. A group of people not unlike the nomad tribes of the Middle East led by the Prophet Muhammad, a group of people not unlike the Saxons and later Vikings of continental Europe who brought about the destruction of the Roman Empire many years prior. For like these other driven peoples in very different locales, the Mongols of the steppe plains north of China and south of the land that would become Russia were also nomadic in origin and highly driven to not only unite…

With the influence of the British Empire, they brought over their cultural values and their views on traditions. Britain was a more modernized and culturally advanced country so old traditions that deem inhumane were abolished. Such as with the case of a tradition that killed widows. In…

Nationalism and Imperialism became very important and impacting concepts in the nineteenth century. Not only was Nationalism and Imperialism existent in the nineteenth century, but these two concepts and ideas existed before the nineteenth century and started to rise and increase in impact in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. By definition, Nationalism was the concept or idea that a country was better than all the others, which contributed to governments distinguishing themselves…

These were associated with France first in the French empire and later the French Union. It is called Indochina because of the Indian and Chinese influences in the region’s culture. France established lordship over the area between 1858 and 1893. The Indochinese Union was created in order to govern the new…

The British actually started the chain of events, which led to the independence of India, when they decided to educate the Indians in western fashion with English as the common language. In 1885 the Indians founded the Indian National Congress to campaign for the independence of India. According to Auma Asaf Ali, one of the leaders of the group, "All the leadership had spent their early years in England. They were influenced by British thought, British ideas, that is why our leaders were always…