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Mr. Martinson Lesson 10-The Mughal Empire World History, 11th Grade Lesson Plan October 2 Students will review Muslim Empires in order take a test. WARMUP: Write a Jeopardy question. Introduction: Any questions? GUIDED: Play Jeopardy to review Independent: TEST﻿﻿  CLOSURE: Check tests I. Objective: Students will examine the Mughal Empire in order to identify aspects of cultural blending.

II. Warmup: What is the name of this building? Why was it built and for whom?

III. Instruction:

In India, the Mughal Empire was one of the greatest empires ever.The Mughal Empire ruled hundreds of millions of people. India was much larger then than now because of the conquering of the Mughal Emperors. India became united under one rule, and had very prosperous cultural and political years during the Mughal rule. There were many Muslim and Hindu kingdoms split all throughout India until the founders of the Mughal empire came. Babur founded the Mughal Empire and his grandson Akbar was a brilliant leader of the Mughal Empire. Under Akbar there was a growth in arts and culture. Cultural blending also occured under Akbar, where new languages called HINDI and URDU were created by blending several languages together.

IV. Guided: ART IN MUGHAL EMPIRE

LEADERS OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE 1. Babur 1494. Defeated the DELHI SULTANATE. Defeated RAJPUTS (small kingdoms in India)

2. Humayun. Lost most of the territorty that Babur gained.

3. Akbar (1556-1605): - -Why was he considered a fair ruler? Allowed foreigners and non Muslims to work their way up in government. --New income tax is based on how much you grow. Gave land to his employees, but when they died it went back to government.

-Religions? Allowed people to believe what they want. Stopped tax on Hindus.

--CULTURAL BLENDING: Married a Hindu woman. Hired Jesuits (Christians) to educate children. -made his own RELIGION called Divine Faith (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jainism, Sikhism) 1.He allowed many languages to be spoken and promoted new languages such as URDU which means "From the soldiers camp". Arabic, Persian, Hindi 2. had a diverse army wich still use the artillery, art was spread through book illustrations 3.he promoted colorful paintings called minatures 4. loved poetry and wrote about non Mughal events 5. 6.

Caste System in India: What would it be like to be an UNTOUCHABLE?

The fact that Shah Akbar was such a fair ruler is really important in India because in the religion of HINDUISM people believe that some people deserve better treatment than others. There are five groups or CASTES and each one is better than the ones that follow it. At the top are the Brahmins - they will become the priests or teachers. But at the very bottom are the UNTOUCHABLES - they are considered dirty, polluted even when they are born. Untouchables are discriminated against and work at jobs like cleaning sewers, handling dead animals and people, and they often are so poor that they have to eat rats or scraps of food. There are millions of Untouchables in India, but they have barely any rights. Women untouchables are often raped and if an Untouchable tries to improve his/her life by buying a home or going to college other castes have been known to kill him/her or throw acid in their faces.

REVIEW Cultural Blending

1. WHAT WERE SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL BLENDING IN THE SAFAVID EMPIRE?

2. WHAT TYPE OF ARTWORK WAS CREATED IN THE SAFAVID EMPIRE

3. WHY DID THE SAFAVID EMPIRE DECLINE SO QUICKLY?

Akbar the Great

V. Independent: Read and do worksheet.

VI. Assessment: Quiz rajputs.......Akbar..........Mughals............Aurangzeb sikhs.........Babur..........Taj Mahal...........Shah Jahan 1. A Mughal leader name ........................ or Greatest One wanted a strong military to increase his empire's strength. 2. The memorial built by Shah Jahan for his dead wife is .......................... 3. ................. which means "mongols" were descendents of Muslim Turks and Afghans 4. An 11 year old boy named....................invaded India and started the Mughal Empire 5. The leaders of small kingdoms in northwestern India were called .................... or "sons of kings" 6. A leader called .................... became ruler by assasinating all opposition. 7. The .................. was a nonviolent religious group who were hated by Mughals 8. .........................was the third son of Shah Jahan and gained power after a civil war where he killed his older brother and put his own dad in jail. VII. Closure: Mughal Empire video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8Wo4MyjJc







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