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ARTEFACT FACTS ABOUT THE HISTORIC THINGS

HISTORIC PLACE TAJMAHAL ◦ The mausoleum in Agra is India's most famous monument, and a sublime shrine to eternal love. Built from between 1632 and 1647 by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, the Taj Mahal was dedicated to Jahan's favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died during childbirth

HISOTRIC WEAPON ◦ People have used weapons in ◦ Major innovations in the history of warfare, hunting, self-defense, law weapons have included the enforcement, and criminal activity. adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different Weapons also serve many other metals, and modern synthetic purposes in society including use in materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon sports, collections for display, and styles either to fit the terrain or to historical displays and support or counteract different demonstrations. As technology has battlefield tactics and defensive equipment. developed throughout history, weapons have changed with it.

HISTORIC WEAPONS

WARS FIRST WORLD WAR ◦ The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict—World War II—which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust.

FIRST WORLD WAR

HISTORIC KING EMPEROR AKBAR ◦ Emperor Akbar was from the Mughal empire and was one of the greatest monarchs in the history of India. He was born in 1542 to Mughal emperor Humayun and Hamida Banu Begum. His father was in exile hence Akbar was raised by his paternal uncles, spending time hunting, horse riding, playing sword, and running, which made him a trained and skilful warrior. He did not attend regular school hence did not learn to read and write. Rather he had various subjects such as history, religion, science, philosophy and other topics recited to him. It is remarkable that this made him knowledgeable in almost all subjects, illiteracy notwithstanding. ◦ Akbar was a Muslim and one of the most powerful emperors of the Mughal Dynasty and built a large empire expanding over most of the Indian subcontinent. ◦ He had an early start as emperor as his father died when he was 13. He went after territories and states in the northern, western and eastern regions, especially Punjab, Delhi, Agra, Rajputana, Gujarat, Bengal, Kabul, Kandahar and Baluchistan which he conquered. This brought most of India under his control. ◦ Emperor Akbar’s reign was enriched by his adoption of policies that created a peaceful atmosphere, re-organization of taxation systems, division of his army establishment of foreign relations with the West.

The emperor was into art and culture and had literature books written in various languages and constructed numerous architectural masterpieces. Akbar married Ruqaiya Sultan Begum in 1551. She was his first cousin. He went on to have many other wives, some out of political interests. Rather unusual, Emperor Akbar introduced a new sect ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ that combined the practices of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism! This was after he created the Ibadat Khana, house of worship, at Fatehpur Sikri. Emperor Akbar died in 1605 from dysentery and was succeeded by his son. Popular culture captures the life and times of this great emperor in novels based on his life and television series telling his story.

EMPEROR AKBAR

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PREPARED BY SHANDHLA T.S 9C

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