THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Flashcards
BULAND DARWAJA IS BUILT BY?
AKBAR.
MUGHALS WERE DESCENDANTS OF?
1 MOTHER’S SIDE- THEY WERE DESCENDANTS OF GENGHIS KHAN, RULER OF MONGOL, CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA.
2 FATHER’S SIDE- SUCCESSORS OF TIMUR RULER OF IRAN, IRAQ AND MODERN DAY TURKEY.
GENGHIS KHAN DIED IN WHICH YEAR?
1227.
TIMUR DIED IN WHICH YEAR?
1404.
WHY MUGHALS DID NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED MUGHALS OR MONGOLS?
BECAUSE GENGHIS KHAN’S MEMORY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MASSACRE OF INNUMERABLE PEOPLE.
IT WAS ALSO LINKED WITH THE UZBEGS, THE MONGOL COMPETITORS.
BABUR SUCCEEDED TO THE THRONE OF FERGHANA IN ______.
1494 WHEN HE WAS ONLY 12 YEARS OLD.
BABUR WAS FORCED TO LEAVE HIS ANCESTRAL THRONE DUE TO INVASION OF ANOTHER MONGOL GROUP,_____.
THE UZBEGS.
BABUR SEIZED KABUL IN?
1504.
1ST BATTLE OF PANIPAT?
BABUR VS IBRAHIM LODI IN 1526.
BABUR VICTORIOUS.
TRUE/FALSE
CANONS WERE AN IMPORTANT ADDITION IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY WARFARE.
TRUE.
BABUR USED THEM EFFECTIVELY IN THE FIRST BATTLE OF PANIPAT.
BATTLE OF KHANUA?
1527 BABUR DEFEATED RANA SANGA, RAJPUT RULERS AND ALLIES AT KHANUA.
BATTLE OF CHANDERI?
1528 BABUR DEFEATED THE RAJPUT RULER MEDINI RAI AT CHANDERI; ESTABLISHED CONTROL OVER AGRA AND DELHI BEFORE HIS DEATH.
WHO WEAKENED HUMAYUN’S CAUSE AGAINST AFGHAN COMPETITORS?
AMBITIONS OF HIS BROTHER MIRZA KAMRAN WEAKENED HUMAYUN’S CAUSE AGAINST AFGHAN COMPETITORS.
HUMAYUN DIVIDED HIS INHERITANCE ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER. HIS BROTHERS WERE EACH GIVEN A PROVINCE.
BATTLE OF CHAUSA?
1539 SHER KHAN DEFEATED HUMAYUN.
BATTLE OF KANAUJ OR BATTLE OF BILGRAM?
SHER KHAN DEFEATED HUMAYUN 1540.
BATTLE OF SIRHIND?
HUMAYUN IN 1555 RECAPTURED DELHI FROM SHER SHAH SURI.
DEATH OF HUMAYUN?
1556 AN ACCIDENT IN HIS BUILDING.
1ST PERIOD OF AKBAR REIGN?
1556-1570 1ST PERIOD.
1 HE BECAME INDEPENDENT OF THE REGENT BAIRAM KHAN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS DOMESTIC STAFF.
2 MILITARY CAMPAIGNS WERE LAUNCHED AGAINST THE NEIGHBOURING KINGDOMS OF MALWA AND GONDWANA AND TO SUPPRESS THE REVOLT OF HIS HALF BROTHER MIRZA HAKIM AND THE UZBEGS.
3 IN 1568 THE SISODIYA CAPITAL OF CHITTOR WAS SEIZED.
4 IN 1569 RANTHAMBOR WAS SEIZED.
2ND PERIOD OF AKBAR REIGN?
1570-1585 2ND PERIOD
1 MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN GUJARAT WERE FOLLOWED BY CAMPAIGNS IN THE EAST IN BIHAR, BENGAL AND ORISSA. THESE CAMPAIGNS WERE COMPLICATED BY 1579-1580 REVOLT IN SUPPORT OF MIRZA HAKIM.
3RD PERIOD OF AKBAR REIGN?
1585-1605 3RD PERIOD
1 EXPANSION OF AKBAR EMPIRE.
2 CAMPAIGNS LAUNCHED IN NORTHWEST.
3 QANDAHAR WAS SEIZED FROM THE SAFAVIDS, KASHMIR WAS ANNEXED AS ALSO KABUL AFTER THE DEATH OF MIRZA HAKIM.
4 CAMPAIGNS IN THE DECCAN STARTED AND BERAR, KHANDESH AND PARTS OF AHMADNAGAR WERE ANNEXED.
5 IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS REIGN AKBAR WAS DISTRACTED BY THE REBELLION OF PRINCE SALIM, THE FUTURE EMPEROR JAHANGIR.
WHO WROTE ABOUT BANJARAS IN HIS MEMOIRS?
JAHANGIR.
WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN AS PRINCE SALIM AND HIS RULING PERIOD?
JAHANGIR (1605-1627).
JAHANGIRS CAMPAIGNS AGAINST AMAR SINGH AND SIKHS?
THE SISODIYA RULER OF MEWAR, AMAR SINGH, ACCEPTED MUGHAL SERVICE.
LESS SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST SIKHS, THE AHOMS AND AHMADNAGAR FOLLOWED.
PRINCE KHURRAM WAS ALSO KNOWN AS AND HIS RULING TIME?
SHAH JAHAN 1627-1658.
KHAN JAHAN LODI WAS THE NOBLE OF?
AFGHAN NOBLE KHAN JAHAN LODI WAS THE NOBLE OF SHAH JAHAN WHO REBELLED AGAINST SHAH JAHAN AND WAS DEFEATED.