Akbar was one of the world's greatest conquerors and an even greater ruler in Indian history. He was born on October 15, 1942 and died October 27, 1605. In 1556, at the young age of 13, Akbar was forced to become ruler when his father, Humayun, died. He learned from mentors and began seizing land. By the time of his death, his empire was almost all of northern India. He was the greatest of the Moguls, the Muslim dynasty that dominated India between the early 15th and 18th centuries. Akbar had many contributions and had a major influence during his time.
Akbar controlled a lot of territory rather quickly and needed to create a system in order to govern it. He developed a bureaucracy, which was among the most efficient in the world. He had put military governors in charge of each region. He had personally picked all of these governors because he didn't want anyone to mistreat the people. If he found out that the governors abused their power or mistreated the poor, he would severely punish them or put them to death.
The most important part of the bureaucracy was tax collection. Akbar made several improvements. His tax, like all other states, was a land tax that amounted to one-third of the value of the crops produced on it each year. However, the tax was supposed to be collected by everyone, but the nobles rarely paid. He changed that by making sure he collected from every person and there were no exceptions. He also eliminated the tax assessed on non-Muslims. From the beginning of the Islamic expansion, non-believers were charged with a special tax called the jizya, and was bitterly resented all during the history of Muslim rule in India. In addition, Muslim rulers in India charged a
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The last few years of Akbar's reign were troubled by the misconduct of his sons. Two of them died in their youth because of alcoholism. The third, Salim, later known as Emperor Jahangir, was frequently in rebellion against his father. Asirgarh, a fort in the Deccan, proved to be the last conquest of Akbar, taken in 1599 as he proceeded north to face his son's rebellion. Akbar was extremely distressed and the tension may even have affected his health and hastened his death, which occurred in Agra in 1605. His body was interned in a magnificent mausoleum at Sikandra, near Agra.
Akbar was a great leader and was very fair to his followers. He tried to combined religions to make all of his people happy. He was very well educated and a patron of the arts. Akbar was one of the greatest Indian leaders and will forever be remembered.
With power that he received and the entire area completely conquered, he the continued his work and managed the government. He favored the instillation of several missions. Introduced traded of new plants, promoted cotton, and publicized Indian
Unlike Attila, Genghiz Khan also known as Temujin and founder of the Mongol Empire in 1206, fought his way to the top after being exiled from his people at an early age. He was known to be just because he ensure that the spoils were distributed evenly among his warriors and he refrained his warriors from harming the innocents without his permission. Due to his fairness, he lost some friends that fought along with him to retrieve his wife, which the Merkits kidnapped. He was very diplomatic and laid down a solid rule for his army to abide by. He also came up with a good defense mechanism of dividing his army into “arbans (10 people), zuun...
Alexander the Great battled numerous different armies, and came out on top almost every time. He conquered much of the east and west to try and unite the two sides. He established many new colonies and cities, many which were named after him. Within 3 years of rule, Alexander followed through with his father’s plan to invade Persia. Alexander ended
Many great individuals have existed throughout history, but there are also those people who were the exact opposite of “great”. Akbar the Great and Louis XIV were both significant figures in the period from 1450 to 1750. Akbar the Great of India was born on October 15, 1542, in India while his father, Humayun, was in exile and became emperor at the age of 14 after his father’s death, ruling over the Mughal Empire until his own death in 1605. Furthermore, Louis XIV of France was born on September 5, 1638, to the Hapsburg Spanish Queen Anne of Austria and Louis XIII, king of France. After his father died when he was four and a half, Louis XIV came to the throne and ruled under a mentor until he was the proper age, then continued ruling through absolute monarchy as the King of France until his death in 1715. While Akbar the Great was a great individual, Louis XIV was not, and this is evident through the similarities in the “caves/chains” of their lives, the differences between the “light” they saw and the “journey” they went on, and the ultimately significant differences between the “new societies” that they created in Mughal India and France.
After taking over Persia, Alexander adapted to the Persian ways and even took a Persian wife. Alexander was kind to others and "Saw no difference between Greeks and barbarians - all were brothers". Alexander accepted that he could not unify the entire world under the one culture so he let everyone have the freedom of religion and any other traditions they had. Because of this, the people in Alexander’s empire were open to him and never thought of revolting. Kahn was very similar to Alexander in his views. Khan was kind to all in his empire as long as you listened to and did what he said. Khan gave equal rights to women and “... granted religious freedom to everyone”. Just as in ALexander’s empire, the people in Khan’s empire were content with Khan and his views so they never felt the need to revolt. Both Khan and Alexander had a way of keeping their people content and preventing
He ruled as an absolute ruler, and liked to be called “master” or “god”. These caused him to become unpopular. He even renamed two months after himself. He stripped the senate of its power. He killed his own cousin. He killed many senators and officers because of his paranoia. And by the end of his reign he would kill anyone who came in contact with him. He made unfair laws for the littlest things, and when he committed them, they didn’t apply to him. Many of these actions forever remembered in the empire. With his paranoia causing him to make these
was an impatient ruler and wouldn’t hesitate to show his power. He was in great physical state
Babur’s grandson, Akbar or Akbar the Great is considered the greatest of all the Mughal rulers (1556 to 1605). He was an excellent military and bureaucratic strategist. Previous Muslim leaders were cruel to Hindus; therefore, Hindus did not like or trust Muslims. As a bureaucrat, Akbar sought to strengthen his position by incorporating Hindus into his empire. He encouraged intermarriage between Mughals and Hindus. He promoted Hindus to high-ranking positions. Of even greater importance, Akbar tolerated Hindu religious beliefs, including making cows sacred. At one point, Akbar tried to merge Islam and Hinduism into one religion. Merging the religions was unsuccessful. His military genius is evident by the territory he gained through military conquests. By the time he died in 1605, his empire had expanded farther north and farther south. The new territory included Bombay on the west coast of India and Calcutta on the east coast of India. However, at that time in history, India was not trading with England. Like Akbar the Great, Shah Abbas I is the most significant ruler of the Safavid Empire (1571-1629). Shah Abbas I became the ruler of the Safavid Empire when he was only sixteen-years-of-age. Despite his age, Shah Abbas I was an excellent military commander. Since the mighty Ottoman Empire and the
Their binding strict code of law known as Yassa, which translates as “decree” earned the empire a high stature. It emerged as accumulations of unwritten decrees from Genghis Khan and Mongol tradition. This enforced legal and social behavior and collaborative with foreign legal systems such that of the Chinese. The second Great Khan, Ogodei Khan proclaimed the Great Yassa into written ordinances for three primary reasons. To reinforce allegiance towards Great Khan’s, integrate nomadic clans, and reinforce strict capital punishments for crimes of blood feuds, spying, treason, desertion, theft, and adultery (Lane 205). By regulating social order, the Pax Mongolica to emerged. During which, international passports materialized for merchants and bureaucrats traveling Mongol domains. Increased dependence on trade during the Pax Mongolica unified China and Russia. In 1268, Kublai Khan started Ortogh, a merchant integrated to aid small merchants. The Ortogh allowed small merchants to pool their money and decreased the merchant trade tax rate from 0.33% to 3% (Rossabi 96). By supporting merchants, the economy grew and merchants became prevalent and competent. Exploiting trade tax allowed the Mongol Empire to finance government buildings. Public works such as hospitals and banks and the Imperial Academy of Medicine all developed. These implementations reformed quality of life in the Mongol
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire paved the way for discoveries and breakthroughs in numerous fields and created a huge economic boom by creating the first international postal system and incorporating religions, trade, technologies and customs of conquered
Around 1500, Babur rose into military power and began capturing powerful cities within India. Babur first captured Kabul, which he made his capital, then went on to attack the Muslim and Hindu leaders of northern India. After numerous victories, Babur went on to seize Delhi and began the Mughal dynasty in 1526. This conquering of India eventually reunited South Asia after thousands of years of war. After Babur’s death, the Mughal dynasty was almost driven from power, but a new, powerful leader emerged. Akbar, Babur’s grandson, came into power around 1556 and managed to keep the Mughal dynasty in power.
Gandhi was a well knowledgeable and unique person who found hope in struggles that he never thought would shape who he was. Gandhi was born in a Hindu family, and even though he was the youngest he made a huge impact on others (“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi” pg 3). He had his older brother who helped him with his education when his father passed away (“Mohandas Gandhi”). Gandhi was very religious even when he was little his brothers tried to make him eat meat (it wasn’t bad to eat meat in Hinduism when you are little), but he refused (“Mohandas Gandhi”). Gandhi respected his religion and was a respectful towards others.
First of all, Genghis Khan lived a very sad life full of death and betrayal. When he was believed to be around nine years-old, and still called by his birth name Temujin, his father arranged a marriage for him. His father took Temujin to live with the tribe, Onggirat, where his future wife lived. When his father was on the way back to his own tribe, he encountered the Tatars. The Tatars recognized him as a threat and offered poisoned food to him. Upon eating it, Yisugei was poisoned and died. When Temujin heard of the news, he went back to his tribe to take the position his father held. The tribe did not like the idea of suc...
Raised from humble beginnings, Temujin, later known as Genghis Khan, was a Mongol ruler and warlord. He ruled over the largest empire that has ever existed, and all of which he had conquered himself. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan", he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the other dynasties. These campaigns were often accompanied by complete annihilations of the civilian populations. By the end of his life, the Mongol Empire occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China. As a result of his successes, his people began to refer to Temujin as
Like previously stated Genghis Khan was one of the world's greatest rulers to live. Through his struggle for power, which began at a young age, his political and military achievements, and his many conquests that conclusively led to the largest empire ever known to man, Genghis Khan is surely regarded as one of the greats. Such a superb empire could never have been formed without visionary leadership, great organizational skills, the most resilient cavalry ever known to man, an army of outstanding archers and last, but certainly not least an overflowing amount of devastation and havoc. The legacy of Genghis Khan, his sons, and grandsons is one of cultural development, artistic achievement, and of course an entire continent being united under "Mongolian Peace."