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Launches the empire into creation. Barbur the first Emperor of the Mogul Empire defeats the Sultanate of Delhi to start conquest of India.
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Babur defeats the large army of the Rajput Princes to take control of the entirety of North of India.
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Barbur dies and is succeed by his son Humayan.
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Leader of the Sher Shah Suri drives Humayan in exile in modern day Afghanistan, only seven years after the great Barbur died.
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While in exile Humayan is housed briefly by the Safavid Muslim Emperor in Persia.
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Discord between Successors allows Humayan to reconquer northern India. This is after being in exile for 19 years.
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Not even a year after reconquering North India Humayan falls down the stairs and dies. He is succeeded by his 14 year old son Akbar, later known as Akbar the Great.
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Akbar defeats the princes of central India (modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) to consolidate he hold on Northern and Central India. This last about 20 years between the 1560's and 1570's.
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Akbar dies of old age in 1605 and is succeeded by his son and lesser man Jahangir. Mind you this was the son who had tried to usurp the throne once already from his father.
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The Portuguese had been the largest trading company and Christian influence in India until the British defeated them and set up the first warehouse in India. The beginning of the end for the Mogul Empire.
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There hadn't really been any European Ambassadors in India prior to the arrival of Sir Thomas Roe from England. Even the Portuguese didn't have an ambassador they chose instead to send Priests with the hopes of converting the Emperor. This shift in Diplomacy cried more respect then disrespect as before.
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During the 1620's under the rule of Jahangir's rule, more like at the behest of Empress Nur Jahan, Mogul art scene reached a high point.
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Jahangir dies and is succeed by his son Shah Jahan. This Emperor ruled beside his silent partner his wife and niece of Empress Nur Jahan.
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Shah Jahan ends religious tolerance and destroys several newly built Hindu temples to prove a point.
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Shah Jahan starts construction on the geometrical/symmetrical Taj Mahal for his favorite and second wife Mumtaz Mahal.
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In 1658 Aurangzeb imprisoned his father for almost bankrupting the Empire on the amount of money he was spending on building the Taj Mahal. Aurangzeb imprisoned his father in the Red Fort in Agra where he could always seen the Taj Mahal until the day he died.
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Although Aurangzeb imprisoned his father he was a wonderful Emperor. When he died in 1707 this marked the end of the Golden Era of the Mogul Empire and the start of it's decline at the hands of the British Empire.