Mughal empire
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- Babur Creates the Mughal Empire
- Akbar Creates a Good Taxation System
- Ha ha, it is a good think that the system is fair now, we don't have to try to avoid paying them.
- Thank you for paying your taxes!
- TaxCollector
- Akbar Builds a Religious Center
- Akbar creates a building where people of all religious faiths met to find a common ground and discuss different topics to see things from different points of view.
- Akbar
- It is amazing how there is a similarity with the way we believe in this!
- It is good that everyone is able to learn about other religions now
- Babur set a foundational idea of war and conquest as an important part of the Mughal empire. This led to the Mughal Empire owning lots of land, but also being responsible for lots of wars and death.
- Akbar Appoints Rajputs for Office
- Babur took over the land his uncles stole from him and expanded through conquest, creating the Mughal Empire.
- I appointed you all to positions in power to represent your groups. I would like to forge peace between our groups.
- The taxation system Akbar created strengthened the relations with the people, and it increased the amount of money the government owned. This gave the Mughal Empire the capacity to get better goods and invite people of all religions, causing the empire to flourish.
- Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Mahal
- Shah Jahan builds the Taj Mahal as a beautiful tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
- Ha! I couldn't care less. Your life is not as important as building this monument for Shah Jahan. You are now in debt, all the money you earn goes to us.
- This was a big reason that people were so appreciative of Akbar, didn't just say "we need to be tolerant of other religions", he took action and made it so that devout people would happily accept other religions, which is one of the reasons India today is very diverse.
- Aurangzeb Reinstates the Jizya
- Aurangzeb was launched into war, and to fund that, he had to tax people (Hindu merchants and people), which made them all angry, just giving him more wars to fight.
- You guys aren't Muslims, so you have to pay your taxes!
- The appointing of rajputs creates the military balance for the beginning of the Mughal Empire, allowing the empire to grow in size and unite India for the first time in a long time, while living mostly in peace with the clans around them.
- Akbar appoints rajputs for office, other clans, so that they wouldn't rise against him, making them allies instead of enemies.
- The Taj Mahal, which is an iconic landmark of India today, also badly impacted the people of the Mughal Empire, because they were forced to pay all their money and go into debt (even die) so that Shah Jahan would have enough money to build it as "beautiful as Mumtaz was."
- I don't have any more money to pay! I will die because I can't even buy food..
- The taxation of Non-Muslims also led to the decline of the empire, because the taxation of all the people caused them to revolt and cause problems, especially since they had an oppressive leader and government.
- This isn't fair! You can't just tax us because of our religion!
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