BY: MARK DEMAURO

KINGDOMS. IN RESULT, THERE WERE FIGHTS OVER LANDS. DESPITE THAT, INDIAN--

IN ORDER TO REBUILD AND DECORATE ANCIENT TEMPLES.

MOST WERE ADVENTURES, AND THE SULTAN OF GHUR DEFEATED HINDU ARMIES. AFTER THAT, HE MADE DELHI HIS CAPITOL, AND THEN HIS SUCCESSORS ORGANIZED A SULTANATE

WON ON THE BATTLEFIELD, THE HINDU PRINCE WASTED RESOURCES ON FIGHTING OTHERS, MOST HINDUS CONVERTED TO ISLAM

IN THE HINDU SOCIAL SYSTEM, PEOPLE WERE BORN INTO CASTES, OR SOCIAL GROUPS FROM WHICH THEY COULDN'T CHANGE

SULTANS INTRODUCED MUSLIM TRADITIONS OF GOVERNMENT. MANY PERSIANS MIGRATED TO INDIA TO SERVE AS SOLDIERS. TRADE BETWEEN MUSLIM AND INDIA INCREASED

MANY OF THEM FLED FROM BAGHAD TO INDIA, BRINGING PERSIAN, AND GREEK LEARNING WITH THEM.

NEWCOMERS HELPED CREATE A BRILLIANT CIVILIZATION AT DELHI, WHERE PERSIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE FLOURISHED

IN 1398, TAMERLANE INVADED INDIA. HE PLUNDERED THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND SMASHED INTO DELHI.

MANY ARTISANS WERE ENSLAVED TO BUILD TAMERLANE'S CAPITOL AT SAMARKAND. ALSO SULTANS NO LONGER CONTROLLED A LARGE EMPIRE.