History Encylopedia

            In this part of the encyclopedia Im reading about the Decline of the Mogul empire After Akbars death in 1605 his son Jahangir ruled after him his wife Nur Jahan actuly ruled since Jahangir was more interested poetry and art. After their deaths thir son Shah Jahan ruled he extended the Deccan in central india.Shah jahan also loved art and built many buildings like the Taj Mahal. When Shah jahan became very sick  his 4 sons fougth for control. Arungzeb the 3rd son imprisonned his father, killed his brothers,and became emperor. Arungzeb expanded the empire it its greatest extent almost the entire Indian  subcontinent.Arangzeb percecuted the majority of the population because they were Hindu. Arungzeb died in 1707 after his death the Hindu's rebelled aganst the next rulers.The  Mogul  Empire lasted another 200 years but was falling apart very fast.         

History Encylopedia

          I was reading about the Ottoman empire in the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. In 1301 the Ottoman empire was founded by Osman I in 1389 it extended into Europe. Mehmet II conqured 12 kingdoms and 200 cities in Anatolia  and the balkans . By 1520 Selim I gained Syria ,Arabia, Egypt ,and the city Constintinople and renamed it Istanbul. After capturing Istanbul the Ottoman empire began its golden age and spread 3 continents Europe, Africa,and Asia. Suleyman the magnificent captured  Belgrade,Hungary,Mesopotamia,armenia and the caucasus region he ruled for 46 years and after his death the ottoman empire was decling slowly.

History encyclopedia

             The  book I'm reading  is the kingfisher history encyclopedia this book is about the history of diferent parts of the world the part of the world I'm reading now is the indian subcontinentwhen it was ruled by the mughal empire the book says that the founder of the mughal empire was Baubar who was a decendent of Chengis Khan he came to india becase he heard about the "riches" there he took over in the 15th century after he died and left the empire under his son Humyuon's control who expanded it after he died he left his son Akbar in power.Akbar was very tolerent to hindus and muslims even thugh he was muslim.