advantage and disadvantage of mughal empire
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The Mughal Empire was one of the three major Muslim Empires to emerge after the dissolution of the Mongol Empire. The Mughal Empire was able to establish control over almost all of the Indian subcontinent and successfully rule over the Hindu people as a minority Muslim occupying force.
The Mughal Empire was a multifaceted entity, it had several strengths and weaknesses.
The strengths of the Mughal Empire lay in the wealth of the well-organized system. A well organized and sophisticated monetary and credit system was the principal strength of the Mughal empire.
A centrally directed system of coinage with an inbuilt mechanism of quality control together with a highly developed network of credit contributed in no small measure to the growth of manufacturing, production, and trade. Innovation elements in revenue policy of the Mughal state such as the growing monetization of the land revenue demand were also considerably facilitated by the quality and the range of monetary and credit systems.
In brief, the Mughal economy was the largest in the world of that time. Larger than the entire European nation making INDIA the richest country of the world, Abundant farmland, Produced rice and sugar, as well as cotton cloth and gold jewelry. Sea routes spread Muslim culture (many converted), Europeans came to exchange silver for goods.
As for weaknesses, Aurangzeb grew his empire to great extent, but his religious intolerance and inability to keep regional governments in line left the Mughals broken and made easy prey for the incoming European powers.