Question

Explain how the following helped the British to build a better empire.

Trade :
Wars :
New crops:

Answer 1

Answer:The British East India Company came to India as traders in spices, a very important commodity in Europe back then as it was used to preserve meat. Apart from that, they primarily traded in silk, cotton, indigo dye, tea and opium. They landed in the Indian subcontinent on August 24, 1608, at the port of Surat.

British promised self-rule to India at the end of the war. ... Being a British colony, the Indian Army contributed a large number of soldiers to the European, Mediterranean and the Middle East conflicts of war in World War I. The Indian Army fought against the German Empire in East Africa and also on the Western Front

Agricultural prices of some commodities rose to about three times between 1870 and 1920. A rich source of the state of Indian agriculture in the early British era is a report prepared by a British engineer, Thomas Barnard, and his Indian guide, Raja Chengalvaraya Mudaliar, around 1774.

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