TODAY IN HISTORY

This week in world history we learned about the Muslim empires, just the Ottoman and Mogul. in 1453 the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople and made it the capital of their new empire. The Ottomans' government was successful because of their military, the Suttan was head of it. His sons' struggled for their fathers' position. In their society there were the peasants, artisas, merchants and pastoral pepole and the women had rights elsewhere.

The Mongul empire was in India. Babur founds the dynasty and captured Delhi and land in north India. Now Akbar had heavy artillery to "control" rivals, the empire of semi-independant states, they were Muslim with religious tolerance, had fair and efficient tax system and had a very prosperous foreign trade. Shan Jahan was another leader and had a failure to deal with prolems at home, the country and subjects were very much poverty. One thing he was known for was the infamous Taj Mahal.

The Taj Mahal was built in Agra, India as a memorial for his wife Mumtaz who died and thirty nine while givinge birth to the fourteenth child . Together it took about twenty ears and twenty thousand ment to complete it. The entire building is of white marble with surfaces decorated with calligraphy, geometric patterns, inlaid jewles and floral mosaics. In todays dollars it would take three hundred million dollars.