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  2. Mughal Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.

  3. Mughal dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.

  4. Akbar - Wikipedia

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    Akbar Padishah Ghazi Shahenshah-e-Hind (King of Kings of Hindustan) Akbar with a lion and a calf, by Govardhan, c. 1630 Emperor of Hindustan Reign 11 February 1556 – 27 October 1605 Coronation 14 February 1556 Predecessor Humayun Successor Jahangir Regent Bairam Khan (1556–1560) Born Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar 15 October 1542 [a] Amarkot, Rajputana (modern-day Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan ...

  5. Deccan wars - Wikipedia

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    500,000 [2] The Deccan wars were a series of military conflicts between the Mughal Empire and the descendants of the Maratha ruler Shivaji from the time of Shivaji's death in 1680 until the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707. [3] Shivaji was a central figure in what has been called "the Maratha insurgency" against the Mughal state. [4]

  6. Effects of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The effects of the Cold War on nation-states were numerous both economically and socially until its subsequent century. For example, in Russia, military spending was cut dramatically after 1991, which caused a decline from the Soviet Union 's military-industrial sector. Such a dismantling left millions of employees throughout the former Soviet ...

  7. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    e. The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale ...

  8. Foreign relations of the Mughal Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Mughal empire has developed relationships with Europeans such as British, Portuguese, Russia, and France. Mughal relations with the British in the 16th century are quite difficult, as local Mughal officials usually exploited the East India Company, who responded the Mughals harmful policies towards the British interest with harassing the Mughal vessels at the sea. [8]

  9. Historiography of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    His friend R. W. Davies said Carr belonged to the anti-Cold War school of history, which regarded the Soviet Union as the major progressive force in the world, the United States as the world's principal obstacle to the advancement of humanity and the Cold War as a case of American aggression against the Soviet Union.