Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. The dependent forest-steppe tribes, subjected to exaction burdens, freed themselves at the first opportunity. During the British rule Coromandel is the major part in exaction of gold. Moreover, such an exaction had to be roughly proportional to the impact. The village was evacuated several times out of fear but no serious exaction was reported. An exaction of 150,000 lire was approved, to be collected over ten years. The normal exaction taken by Carthage was likely "an extremely burdonsome" one-quarter.