The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation: Crash Course World History #217
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========== Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course
World History and today we’re going talk about the Mughal Empire. And we’re also going
to talk about the two most important Mughal emperors, Akbar and Aurangzeb and how their
historical reputations were made. Mr Green, Mr Green? Don’t you mean the Mongol Empire? Oh, Me From The Past, that reminds of the time that you conflated the word forte with
the word forté - which of course you pronounced fort.
But on this occasion you aren’t entirely wrong the Mughals were kind of the Mongols.
But we’ll get to that in a minute. So, the Mughals were Muslims who created an empire in India that held power for roughly
200 years between the early 16th and early 18th centuries, although, technically the
Mughal empire didn’t come to an end until aft...