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India suffered a series of crop failures in the late 19th century, leading to widespread famines that caused tens of millions of deaths in India. [37] Responding to earlier famines as threats to the stability of their control, the East India Company had already begun to concern itself with famine prevention during the early colonial period. [38]
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
The period after the American Revolutionary War was one of rapid western expansion. The areas occupied by Native Americans in the United States were called Indian country. They were distinguished from "unorganized territory" because the areas were established by treaty.
It is estimated that at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians, mostly occurring in more than 370 massacres (defined as the "intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise"). [178] [179]
This is a timeline of Indian history, ... 1800 BCE: Adichanallur urn ... Marks the end of Mughal Territorial Expansion over India. 1708:
1800s–1810 Shawnee: Shawnee chief who attempted to organize a vast alliance of Native American tribes in the eastern United States during the early 19th century. Siding with Great Britain during the War of 1812, he led the Shawnee against the United States until his death at the Battle of the Thames. Tenskwatawa: 1775–1834 1800s–1830s Shawnee
The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. [15] As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. [16] India was a participating state in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936.
Although ancient India had a significant urban population, much of India's population resided in villages, whose economies were largely isolated and self-sustaining. [citation needed] Agriculture was the predominant occupation and satisfied a village's food requirements while providing raw materials for hand-based industries such as textile, food processing and crafts.