Kirsten's Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. East India Company a trading company that was given the exclusive right to trade with India from the British government in the 1600s and who expanded their power to control most of India until being replaced by the British government in 1858
  2. 4. an explosive substance used in weapons, dynamite, and fireworks
  3. 7. relating to the religion of Islam
  4. 9. the process of adopting or being influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe and North America
  5. 10. a container, in the case of the Sepoy Rebellion, holding gun powder needed to load the enfield rifle
  6. 12. the part of a government that makes laws- parliament or congress
  7. 13. an Indian empire whose rulers were Muslim and claimed to be descended from Genghis Khan
Down
  1. 1. gun
  2. 3. a person or country who is involved in the domination of another country’s political, economic, and/or cultural life
  3. 5. the attempt to prevent something
  4. 6. in India, formerly, a native soldier who served in a European army, esp. the British army
  5. 8. the state of being free from outside control
  6. 11. a rigid social class system in Hinduism based on the concept of reincarnation