History - India: Akbar the Great Flashcards
1
Q
What options did he give to each local ruler when conquering them?
A
1: Fight/die/be banished if defeated
2: Keep ruling region but under Mughal Empire
2
Q
Whose great-grandson?
A
Babur’s
3
Q
What changed with the taxes?
A
He taxed Muslims and Non-Muslims equally
4
Q
What was the Ibadat-Khana?
A
A building where all faiths could come and discuss religion
5
Q
What did it mean when he embraced aspects of Hindu and Indian society?
A
He strayed from traditional Islam:
- Muslims are meant to live modesty, not luxuriously as he did
- He believed he had some form of divinity by being at the top of the caste system
6
Q
Personality
A
- Very violent (made a skull tower to threaten his enemies)
- Locked infants in a room to discover a ‘secret instinctive language’ in the name of science
7
Q
What did he do?
A
Expanded the Mughal Empire
