... , poems and miniatures. The young emperor Jahangir, for example, boasted of slaughtering 17,000 animals and nearly 14,000 birds, yet he was a great patron of the arts. His successor, Shah Jahan, secured his throne by murdering rivals, yet he was also the romantic who built an exquisite shrine, the Taj Mahal, to the memory of a beloved wife. Jahangir's father, Akbar, the ... . Small wonder that Bombay became known as the "buying ground of the English." As the Mogul empire began to collapse, a host of contenders swarmed into the vacuum. In 1739, Nadir Shah of Persia marched on Delhi, slaugh...

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... on a square set of walls. There are four extremely thin soaring minarets. This building is part of a complex including a hospital, a school, and a library. Taj Mahal (Agra, India) 440 710 17th C Shah Jahan was the current ruler, and one of his wives (his favorite) died giving birth to her fourteenth child. He had this building made in her honor, as a tomb. There is ... ...

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