@jvpeters-liamwb249
It sounds like your saying "the muggle empire"
@ramnextgen
Correction, Mr Green. Aurangzeb was the great grandson of Akbar, and not the grandson, as you say it. Seems not to matter, but it does. Indeed. Akbar > Jahangir > Shah Jehan > Aurangzeb.
@danielBAC
Aurangzeb is the great grandson of Akbar and not grandson. Line of descent of the Mughal Emperors 1. Babur 2.Humayun 3. Akbar 4.Jahangir 5.Shah Jahan 6.Aurangzeb 7.Bahadur Shah 8.Jahandar Shah 9.Farrukhsiyar 10.Rafi ud-Darajat 11.Shah Jahan II 12.Muhammad Shah 13.Ahmad Shah Bahadur 14.Alamgir 15.Shah Alam 16.Akbar Shah 17.Bahadur Shah II
@asimaahsan5283
Humayum: I’m unstoppable Stairs: YOU DARE CHALLANGE ME MORTAL?
@sarban1653
Actually, the first Muslims to rule a portion of India were the Ummayads led under Muhammad bin Qasim who ruled Sindh and southern Punjab in 711.
@TheSeventhChild
My entire life I have never compared the Mughals with the Moogles. Thanks, Crash Course.
@crex-pd1vv
Sigh... starts up Europa Universalis
@ayushsinha7300
I am surprised that no one was bothered by the fact that he said that Aurangzeb is Akbar's grandson.
@tehaamhashmi8989
Mughals were a group of turkic noble families from central Asia belonging to Chagatai section of Turkic race...Mughals traced their maternal lines to Ghenghis Khan and paternal lines to Timur
@ctfamily40
"It's just hard to rule a declining empire well- ask President Obama" Holy guacamole- I love you.
@personpacman7439
Who's here because of Coronavirus and online school? :/
@beccajoiner1473
These videos are the only thing I have going for me when it comes to passing college classes
@Drigger95
John Green, I really love how you reflect upon history in the right way. Really, people are incredibly simplistic and self-righteous in this day and age, and in each episode, you consistently show history isn't black and white, and our interpretation of history tells us more about our selves than the people we are interpreting. Thank you ~ sincerely a dude who enjoys learning human beings.
@stephanddavel.1004
How relevant this video was to me. I'm currently reading a great book called "Light of other days." I'll try not to spoil too much of the book but it takes place in a world where people are able to see into the past. Not change it- but just witness it. The whole idea is that history is dependent more on how people view it than what actually happened. Being able to look into the past and really see how these rulers made their decisions may drastically change the way we see them, and ultimately ourselves. Thanks for being awesome, John.
@Hasanwinchester
5:10 he also kind of created his own religion Deen-E-Ilahi ( the Religion of God ) ... It was a mix of Hinduism , Islam , Sikhism etc .
@nikrai99
Aurangzeb is to Sikhs (and Hindus) as Hitler is to Jewish people. That's why some people will find it offensive that there is little emphasis on the atrocities committed by the later Mughal regime.
@shobharoy2033
The tradition of being weighed against gold on his birthday,was based on the Hindu tradition of Tulabharam, and was practised by both Akbar and his son Jahangir. Not just gold, Akbar also weighed other items like grains and textiles, and distributed them among the poor and needy. That was not profligacy, but an act of charity.
@swapnilnarendra
How he ended it, summed the current state of India, perfectly !
@Mansoor0606
@CrashCourse : I would like to add a few facts bout Aurangzeb and his so called "Intolerance"... Aurangzeb ruled for 49 years... In the first couple of years, he abolished nearly 65 different kinds of taxes, most of which were levied on poor people... This resulted in nearly 40% decline in tax collection empire wide (I doubt any other govt could ever have taken such a drastic step for reducing the burden of its ppl)... After 20 years of falling Income Aurangzeb levied Jizya on his 21st year of Throne... The max slab for the Jizya was 12 Dirhams for a person who has held 200 Dirhams for a year... Thus the worst tax rate turns out to be 6% per annum... There were exceptions too... It was not levied on the income & savings of: >Women. >Children. >Senior Citizens. >Men who served in Army... Now, is it supposed to be looked merely as Tax on Hindus..? Muslims of his reign were levied 4 kinds of tax which was specific to muslims and not on others... one of them was 10% additional tax on agriculture produce the 2nd bein 2.5%% of Zakat... these two taxes itself totals to 12.5% on Muslims as compared to 6% on Hindus... Had Aurangzeb not been a tolerant ruler, how could have levied lesser tax on Hindus as compared to Muslims..? Was Jizya a reason for mass conversion... Well NO! But that is an altogether different reply... Some other time...
@sammu