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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d. it was to organize each state's government
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The Spanish people discovered that in the 16th century once they landed in central Mexico. Día de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) emerged in medieval Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America), where native groups, such as Aztec, Maya and Toltec, had specific memories of their departed loved ones.
It was rejected by the people and the church as a day to syncrete pagan concepts with Catholic Christianity. Its etymology went back to good old-Columbian instances where people used to think that their soul could go to different spots if someone passed away, based on how the man died.
In an effort to "reform" the local people, the Spaniards mixed some of their values with those of the natives and even switched the representations of the gods with those of the Catholic apostles.
As the population grew, southern power grew in Congress. - (Apex)