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India and england trade
During the 1600s Queen Elizabeth I started to develop a trade between England and India. Then English became the language for trading because they had to understand each other of course. However, some words in British English meant another thing in Indian English. Because India has two "main" languages, Bengali and Hindi, there became two versions of Indian English, Binglish and Hinglish. -
The triangle trade
During the 17th century, the slave trade began. One part of it was called the triangle trade. Ships would leave Britain with guns and manufactured goods to arrive in west Africa to exchange that for African slaves. Then they sailed to the Caribbean and traded slaves for sugar, tobacco, and cotton that was delivered to England in exchange for guns and manufactured goods, etc. This created the triangle trade -
The First Fleet
In the late 1700s, the First Fleet arrived in Port Jackson (nowadays known as Sydney) in Australia. The fleet was eleven ships with approximately 780 people on. The people who were sent on the ships were mostly criminals from Britain. They were sent to Australia as a punishment as the culture and the farming for an example were much different from England. They were only allowed to live in Australia and not to leave the country, especially not back to England.