This week we will look at the history of South Africa from two perspectives. The first video is a view of South African history from the point of view of the white South African point of view and the second shorter video is from the point of view of black South African point of view.
South African History 1652 -1902
The TRUE history of South Africa
Further Reading
The stability of the previous reign continues, and Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) — more the aesthete and less the man of action than his father—is the right person to enjoy it. Meanwhile drama is provided by the rivalries which surround the emperor, especially between his wife and son.
Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658) was something of an enigma.
After murdering several relatives to secure the throne for himself, he built
the world's most famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal.
When the second Emperor Humayun died suddenly, his thirteen-year-old son was crowned Emperor. He was called Akbar, meaning "Great". He would grow up to amply deserve the name, for he was the greatest of the Great Moghuls.
Aurangzeb murdered two brothers to inherit
the throne and imprisoned his father. He greatly extended the Moghul Empire,
but Sikh resistance to his attempts to impose Islam hastened
his decline.
The Mughal
Empire or Mogul Empire, self-designated as Gurkani, was
an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. For some two centuries, the empire stretched
from the outer fringes of the Indus 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.
Episode 1
Through the Khyber Pass in 1526 came the founder of the great Moghul
Empire, Babur. He rode around with a small band of followers seizing villages
and cattle. By the time he came into India, he had built up a sizeable army and
had firearms which helped him to win battles that enabled him to crown
himself Emperor of India.
In Akbar's great palace city at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra we
discover how a Great Moghul lived. Also examined are Akbar's first contacts
with Europeans and his obsession with religion.
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