


The Sepoy rebellion set the East India Company back quite a bit and fed into a future determination of a nation of people.

It sent a message home that they were not the noble rulers they thought they had been.
AGE OF EMPIRES 3 THE ASIAN DYNASTIES CRACK
This was the first crack in the British Empire. In between this period was the Sepoy rebellion. This company was the effectively government of India up until Ghandi became Prime Minister. The British East India Company was created to maintain the flow of spices and resources out of India. First was the Hudson’s Bay Company which was responsible for running the country of Canada and maintaining the fur trade. In order to maintain this power two company’s were created. The British were the world’s bastion of power. This gave Britain the opportunity to take control of all of India, all of China, half of Africa, Canada, and many Middle Eastern lands. Various wars with the French with the help of the Germans left the French weak. The Europeans used these inter-country differences to carve out the Indian empire and use them against each other.Īs British dominance grew in the seas, the Dutch Empire vanished. India was home to a giant expanse of mountains that cut off villages and created multiple small empires in the area, yes India was a split nation of people. The giant land of India (modern day Pakistan, India, and Southern China) was a vast land ready to be conquered. The French and British saw a need to maintain their positions in the world and so they worked to help carve up India. Much like the last through walkthroughs, first a little bit about the history of the Indian revolution.Īfter the Dutch rebelled against the Spanish their first move was to acquire territory and become a real empire, which they did.
