They helped to end slavery
They started drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, or mercury to try to avoid it. Sitting close to a fire also or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or fumigating the house with herbs to be able to purify the air.
The Mughals did not follow any law of succession like the law of primogeniture. Consequently, each time a ruler died, a war of succession between the brothers for the throne started. This weakened the Mughal Empire, especially after Aurangzeb. It is generally believed by the historians that one of the major causes of the decline of the Mughal empire was the policy of conflict followed by Aurangzeb with the Rajput’s.
