21 | The life and times of Babur: India's first Mughal Emperor (1368-1530)

For anyone who is interested in learning more about Babur's crazy life, I'd look no further than Annette Susannah Beveridge's excellent translation from the original Chagatai Turkish (now, sadly, an extinct language).(0:00) Intro(2:35) 1368 | Rise of the Ming Dynasty(4:10) 1370 | Timur: restorer of the Mongol Empire(6:40) 1450 | Gutenberg's printing press(7:27) 1453 | Fall of Constantinople(8:03) Late 1400s | The White Sheep and Shah Ismail(14:18) 1487 | Incas in Quito(15:26) 1483 | Babur is born(15:53) 1492 | Busy year for Spain(16:46) 1498 | Birth of Sikhism(17:57) 1502 | Rise of the Safavids(19:03) 1505 | Mona Lisa(19:33) 1510 | Portuguese take Goa(21:11) 1514 | Copernicus 'invents' Heliocentrism(22:09) 1517 | Palestine and Egypt fall to the Ottomans(22:29) 1519 | Magellan embarks and Cortés arrives in Mexico(23:28) 1526 | Pizarro 'discovers' the Inca Empire(24:32) 1530 | Babur's death and legacy