The Mughal Empire Hanna Wilson What is it
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The Mughal Empire Hanna Wilson
What is it? • MUGHAL: PERSIAN FOR MONGOL. • BABUR: FOUNDER, MUSLIM DESCENDENT OF GENGHIS KHAN AND TIMUR • SOUTHERN TIP WASN’T RULED BY THE MUGHALS
Information about Mughals • ECONOMY THRIVED BASED ON COTTON CLOTH AND EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION • SURAT: PORT IN THE NORTHWEST • TRADE • TRAVELS TO MECCA • HAD NO NAVY OR MERCHANT SHIPS • VIEWED EUROPEANS AS SHIPMASTERS INSTEAD OF ENIMIES • EUROPEAN NAVAL SUPPORT COULD BE FOUND WHEN NEEDED
Who traded with them? • THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO SAIL TO INDIA WAS VASCO DA GAMA • AFTERWARDS ENGLAND, PORTUGAL AND THE NETHERLANDS ALL BECAME TRADING PARTNERS • MOSTLY TRADED TEXTILES AND CLOTHING SUCH AS COTTON CLOTH
Religion • MANSABDARS WERE OFFICIALS HOLDING LAND REVENUES (DEFINITION FROM THE BULLIET TEXT BOOK) • 70% WERE MUSLIM • 15% WERE HINDUS • AKBAR WAS THE FIRST MUSLIM RULER TO MARRY A HINDU • HIS SON RULED WITH BOTH MUSLIM AND HINDU ANCESTRY • HINDU PEOPLES DISPUTES WERE SETTLED IN HINDU LAW • MUSLIMS FOLLOWED MUSLIM LAW
New religion • AKBAR ALSO MADE HIMSELF RULER OF A NEW RELIGION • INCORPORATED MUSLIM, ZOROASTRIANISM, HINDUISM, SIKH, AND CHRISTIAN BELIEFS VALUES AND CUSTOMS INTO ONE • THE RELIGION DIED WITH HIM
Akbar’s successors • THE LANGUAGE OF DELHI BECAME POPULAR • ITS IS NOW CALLED URDU IN PAKISTAN OR HINDI IN INDIA AKBARS GREAT-GRANDSON WAS AURANGZEB • AURANGZEB PUT RESTRICTIONS ON THE HINDUS • HINDUS WERE THE PREDOMINATE PAINTERS • MUGHAL POWER DECLINED WITH THE DEATH OF AURANGZEB
ART • CONSISTED OD PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS AND MANUSCRIPTS • MOST ART PICTURED NATURE AND CONSISTED OF MANY DETAILS • EMPEROR AURANGZEB OUTLAWED PAINTINGS AND MUSIC IN 1680
Rich and prosperous • THE MUGHALS WERE RICH AND PROSPEROUS AND VIRTUALLY FREE OF WARFARE FOR AN EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TIME • THEREFORE, THEY WERE ELABORATE TO THE EXTREME • THE TOMB OF THE SECOND MUGHAL RULER IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS
The Fall • LAND-GRANT SYSTEM • STRONG REGIONS CHALLENGED MUGHAL MILITARY AUTHORITY • NADIR SHAH OF IRAN INVADED THE CAPITOL AND STOLE THEIR MOST PRIZED TREASURE, THE PEACOCK THRONE. • THIS MARKED THE END FOR THE MUGHALS • INDEPENDENT STATES STARTED SEPARATING FROM THE EMPIRE • EUROPEANS MOVED IN TO RULE UNTIL THEIR OWN WARS PREOCCUPIED THEM
Mughal legacy • THE MUGHALS LEFT THEIR MARK ON INDIA • MOST PROMINENTLY THROUGH ARCHITECTURE • THE TAJ MAHAL AND RED FORT ARE EXAMPLES
Works Cited • BULLIET TEXTBOOK • HTTP: //ASIANHISTORY. ABOUT. COM/OD/INDIA/P/MUG HALEMPIREPROF. HTM • HTTP: //WWW. POWERSHOW. COM/VIEW 4/538493 MDG 0 M/THE_MUGHALS_POWERPOINT_PPT_PRESENTAT ION • HTTP: //WWW. POWERSHOW. COM/VIEW/26 E 4 F 3 N 2 FJZ/MUGHAL_EMPIRE_POWERPOINT_PPT_PRESENTA TION
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