MUGHAL
EMPIRE
The Mughal Empire was an empire from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal Emporers were descendants of the Timurids. The Mughal Empire began in 1526; at the height of their power in the late 17Th and early 18th centuries. They controlled most of the Indian Subcontinent-extending from Bengal in
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the east to Balochistan in the west,
Kashmir in the north to the Kaveri basin in the south. Territory of more than 3.2 million square kilometers (1.2 million square miles). |
The "classic period" of the empire started in 1556 with Akbar the Great. The reign of Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor, was the golden age of Mughal architecture. He erected many splendid monuments, the most famous of
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which is the legendary Taj Mahal at Agra, as well as, Pearl Mosque, the Red Fort, Jama Masjid(Mosque) and Lahore Fort. The Mughal Empire reached the zenith of its territorial expansion during the reign of Aurangzeb. The empire reached it's end in the year 1857.
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