Question

a) Describe ONE way in which Akbar’s actions in sponsoring the translations discussed in the passage are similar to actions taken by rulers of other empires during the period 1450–1750.

Answer 1

The period was marked by a return to past texts of knowledge,

Explanation:

The period being talked about here was one of intellectual inquiry into the past.

The Europeans had been involved in the renaissance and discovering the old texts of Greece and Europe again.

Chinese missionaries were looking for Buddhist texts of the yoke.

Akbar had commissioned to know the great knowledge of the Indian antiquity by making the translations of the texts into his court language and then using the principles that deemed useful by him.