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- 2. Persian leader who attacked India.
- 3. The ____ brothers were two brothers who killed emperors and put other emperors in their place so that they could be the ones with the real power.
- 5. This was the emperor who made decisions that led to the destruction of the empire.
- 8. capital of India at the time of the Moghuls
- 10. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a __________ where many English suffocated and died.
- 11. The ___________ decisions Aurangzeb made were to spend his entire reign fighting in the Deccan, making Islam the official religion, and giving the English permission to make a trading post in India.
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- 1. This was the emperor who got rid of the Ali brothers.
- 4. This was the company formed by the English to set up trading posts in India.
- 6. It was not the English ______________, but a the East India Company, that fought against India.
- 7. This was one of the items taken by the Persians when they burned Delhi and attacked India.
- 9. Thinking the English were planning to attack, Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, asked the ________ to help him drive the English out of India after they began building armed forts to protect themselves.