--- title: The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/0/) — In the years Europa Universalis 5 covers, the richest and most crowded lands on Earth were not in Europe but in Asia: India and China each had far more people than all of western Europe. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/1/) — In 1337 the Mongol Yuan ruled China and the Delhi Sultanate ruled much of north India; the Ming and the Mughals, the famous names, did not exist yet and arose later, just as they do in the game. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/2/) — Think of a school where the head teacher changes every few generations: the building stays, but the rules and the language of the office change, and so did the dynasties of China, India and Persia. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/3/) — These empires left wonders you can still visit: the Taj Mahal, built by an emperor as a tomb for his wife, the Forbidden City in Beijing, and most of the Great Wall you see in photos, rebuilt by the Ming. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/4/) — Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/6/) — In south India, the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336 and became very rich from trade and farming; its capital near Hampi was one of the largest cities in the world around 1500. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/7/) — Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/8/) — The Mughal emperor Akbar, who ruled from 1556 to 1605, expanded the empire and welcomed people of different faiths to his court. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/9/) — Under the Mughals India was one of the richest regions in the world, famous for its cotton cloth. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/10/) — The Taj Mahal in Agra was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, mostly between 1632 and 1648, by about 20,000 workers. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/11/) — In 1337 China was ruled by the Mongol Yuan dynasty, which the Chinese Ming dynasty overthrew in 1368. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/12/) — Most of the Great Wall you see in photos today was built or rebuilt by the Ming dynasty. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/13/) — The Great Wall cannot be seen with the naked eye from space, because although it is very long it is narrow. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/14/) — The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/15/) — The Qing dynasty, founded by the Manchus from the north-east, took Beijing in 1644 and ruled China until 1912 as its last dynasty of emperors, and under the Qing China reached its largest size. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/16/) — From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/17/) — The Safavid dynasty took power in Persia in 1501 and made Shia Islam the state religion, while their Ottoman neighbours and rivals were Sunni Muslims, and its capital Isfahan was one of the finest cities of the 1600s. - ← previous: [Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/) - next →: [The people who were already there: what colonisation did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)