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The Mughal Empire was only the second empire in history to extend across the entire Indian Subcontinent. Descendants of both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, the Mughals combined a sterling military the Mughals combined a sterling military pedigree with dynastic prestige unrivalled even by the Ottomans and Safavids. Starting with their conquest of the Delhi Sultanate in 1526, the Mughals gradually emerged by the reign of Akbar (r. 1556-1605) as the paramount power on Indian political landscape Mughal-Library