History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . iza-tion. One may gain some idea of the extent of India by layingthe map of Hindustan upon that of the United States. If thesouthernmost point. Cape Comorin, be placed over New Orleans,Calcutta will lie nearly over New York City, and Bombay inthe neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa. 941. The Mongolian Emperors of Hindustan. A generationafter Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape, a Mongolian conqueror,Baber, had established his empire in India. The dynasty of Mon-golian rulers which he founded was able to keep the whole
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . iza-tion. One may gain some idea of the extent of India by layingthe map of Hindustan upon that of the United States. If thesouthernmost point. Cape Comorin, be placed over New Orleans,Calcutta will lie nearly over New York City, and Bombay inthe neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa. 941. The Mongolian Emperors of Hindustan. A generationafter Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape, a Mongolian conqueror,Baber, had established his empire in India. The dynasty of Mon-golian rulers which he founded was able to keep the whole countryunder its control for nearly two centuries; then after the death How England became Queen of the Ocean 635 of the Great Mogul Aurungzeb, in 1707, their empire began tofall apart in much the same way as that of Charlemagne haddone. Like the counts and dukes of the Carolingian period, theemperors oMcials, the subahdars and nawabs (nabobs), and therajahs (Hindu princes who had been subjugated by the Mongols)had gradually got the power in their respective districts into their. Fig. 163. The Taj Mahal This mausoleum of princes was built at Agra, India, in 1632. It has beendescribed as the most splendidly poetic building in the world ... a dreamin marble, which justifies the saying that the Moguls designed like Titansbut finished like jewelers. The entire building is of white marble, inlaidwith precious stones. Although this is regarded as the most perfect monu-ment, India has many others of great magnificence, witnesses of the powerand wealth of her princes own hands. Although the emperor, or Great Mogul, as the Eng-lish called him, continued to maintain himself in his capital ofDelhi, he could no longer be said to rule the country at the open-ing of the eighteenth century, when the French and English werebeginning to turn their attention seriously to his coasts. 942. English and French Settlements in India. In the timeof Charles I (1639) a village had been purchased by the
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