India Bolded dates

Question 1

600s CE

Answer 1

Founding of ISLAM

Question 2

800 CE

Answer 2

ISLAM spreads via trade routes from western Mediterranean to India

Question 3

1498 CE

Answer 3

Vasco de Gama (Portuguese explorer)

Question 4

1500s CE

Answer 4

Founding of Sikhism by Guru Nanak

Question 5

1526 CE

Answer 5

Babur, 1st Mughal emperor (Mongol and Turk ancestry)

Question 6

1600

Answer 6

British East India Company (BEIC) founded

Question 7

1619

Answer 7

1619: Mughal Emperor Jahangir gives permission to BEIC to trade in India

Question 8

1757

Answer 8

Lord Clive; Battle of Plassey
British > Trading Empire

Question 9

1857

Answer 9

Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence?

Question 10

1858

Answer 10

British Crown in control following events of 1857
British › Administrative Empire

Question 11

1876-7

Answer 11

Queen Victoria proclaims herself - Empress of India

Question 12

1885

Answer 12

Indian National Congress formed (elite Indians; moderates and
extremists)

Question 13

1930

Answer 13

Gandhi’ Salt March

Question 14

1947

Answer 14

Partition of British India into India and Pakistan (east and west)
-Jawaharlal Nehru is first Prime Minister

Question 15

1972

Answer 15

Following war, East Pakistan now independent Bangladesh

Question 16

early 1990s

Answer 16

Economic liberalization policies; India’s most recent rise in the global economy
Rise of communalism/religious nationalism