Answer: It was his personal refuge to escape the burden of managing the empire.
The Taj Mahal was not built for any particular reason, but because Shah Jahan wanted his wife Mumtaz Mahal (his then-favorite wife), who died while giving birth to her fourteenth child, to be immortalized by an eternal architectural masterpiece that would "outlast eternity." As he said in his journals - "I shall build a monument larger than anything the world has ever seen. Then let them come and find me worthy or not." And indeed they did come - although looking at it you might think otherwise; only 35,000 people visited last year. But this isn't surprising considering how expensive it is just to enter.
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Freedom is when your free from something
The idea that the individual self can accomplish great things is Humanism. Means to the sources, they are going back to the ideas of Greece and Rome is Ad Fontes. Making things looks effortless and easy is Sprezzatura.
Trenches were dug in a zigzag pattern so that if an enemy entered the trench, he could not fire straight down the line. ... The main trench lines were connected by communicating trenches, allowing for the movement of messages, supplies, and soldiers and were lined with barbed wire.