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Questions On The 320 Year Rule Of The Delhi Sultanate

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Question #1 The 320 year rule of the Delhi Sultanate in the subcontinent of India ushered in a unique synthesis of cultures that would forever alter the fabric of the empire’s cultural landscape in countless ways. The Delhi Sultanate stretched from the years 1206 to 1526 with its perhaps most notable and lasting effect being its bringing together and assimilating of Indian and Islamic cultures, which had up until this point, never happened on quite this scale. This monumental conquest was part of a larger cultural and political growth, as during this time, nomadic Turkic peoples that had formerly been enslaved by Asian civilizations were gaining their freedom and rising through the ranks of Western Asian and Middle Eastern societies. This was also a period that saw a radical spread of Islam through the predominately at that point, Hindu-based societies in Western Asia, particularly in India which created the Indo-Persian culture that we still see today in this part of the world. The Delhi Sultanate can be credited with many widespread accomplishments but premierely, their creating of a new, Islamic India with a synthesized culture that proved to be decidedly different from the ancient Indian culture that the subcontinent had known for centuries. It is widely agreed that Islamic civilization was the most cosmopolitan society of the Middle Ages, as they were considered to be very economically advanced and culturally rich for the time period. The Delhi Sultanate, although

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