There was a reason they called him Babur the Explorer.
Babur was the third surviving son of Akbar VIII, and his wife Vaisha. He underwent his badh hona at Rajpur, and may have been born there, probably when the imperial couple was on vacation there. Another possibility is that he was born at the Temple of Anandhi, in the nearby village of Chandisthra, during the passage of the imperial couple through there to Rajpur. What is known for certain is that he was born in 1464.
Babur was 12 when his father and his eldest brother made their first landing on the other side of the Phoenix Strait. This land had long been a base for pirates who raided the Syrixian coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the international slave market. Following this success, Babur started to explore the coast of this land, most of which was unknown to the Empire at the time. His objectives included finding the gold rumored to be hidden in the mountains there, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Syrixian coast.
At that time the ships of the Empire were too slow and too heavy to make these voyages. Under his direction, a new and much lighter ship was developed, the caravel, which could sail further and faster, and, above all, was highly maneuverable and could sail much nearer the wind, or into the wind. This made the caravel largely independent of the prevailing winds. With the caravel, Syrixian mariners explored the shallow waters and rivers as well as the open ocean with wide autonomy. In 1479, Akbar VIII appointed Babur's eldest brother Akbar governor of the new Colony of Janapadha. Babur was 15 at the time.
In 1482, his second brother Bhudev made a tour of the world, stopping in many areas in both the East and West. While largely a diplomatic mission, among his goals was to seek out geographic material for his brother Babur. Bhudev returned from his trip in 1483 with a detailed world map drafted by an August cartographer. He then promptly donated houses to the growing Privy Department of Domestic Affairs to reunite all the sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, and astronomy- into what would later become the University of Pataliputra. For other subjects like medicine or philosophy, he ordered that each room should be decorated according to each subject that was being taught.
However, a tragedy that would both help and harm him befell the Imperial family. A terrible plague struck Pataliputra and claimed the lives of both Akbar and his eldest son, as well as Bhudev. This left Babur as the sole heir to the throne, and after the plague subsided, he was crowned Emperor by the Guru-Baba in Rajpur, just as his father and his grandfather, as well as his ancestors, had been, in 1485.
It is traditionally suggested that Babur gathered at the Golden Palace a school of navigators and map-makers. While originally this was thought to be a misconception, modern historical investigation has mostly proved this traditional claim to be true. Referring to Babur's school, sixteenth-century Syrixian mathematician and cosmographer Saif Durani remarked, "from it our sailors went out well taught and provided with instruments and rules which all map makers and navigators should know."
Babur sponsored voyages, collecting a 40% tax on the profits made by naval expeditions. The massive harbor of Pataliputra provided a convenient harbor from which these expeditions left. The voyages were made in very small ships, mostly the caravel, a light and maneuverable vessel, however when conquest was to occur they were accompanied by large fleets. Most of the voyages sent out by Babur consisted of around twenty caravels that navigated by following the coast, stopping at night to tie up along some shore.
This did not satisfy Emperor Babur, however; and so he looked to explore in multiple ways, namely including conquest. The Colony of Janapadha, even including its unorganized outer territories, was still small compared to the mainland empire, and the Emperor vowed to rectify this. He secured more lands north of the original province and extended the unorganized territories, then promptly organizing them and building village after village, and city after city.
Babur then looked further, and expanded west from Janapadha to found the colony of Rashupahatra. By 1492, both expansions were covered and settled, and Syrixia was entering a renaissance of discovery and innovation unparalleled by any past ones started by the guidance of any emperor before. Many peasants began to worship him as a god, the Enlightened, the Avatar of Prajapati. It is because of him, as well as his son Rajiv, that the Syrixian Emperor is seen as a god-emperor today. No one has ever dared to thrust the Imperial House off their throne.
Babur spent the rest of his reign expanding Syrixia's colonial empire, and paving the way for Rajiv, his son, to make further accomplishments that would see him become Rajiv the Great, the most adored emperor in Syrixian history. Rajiv was given tours of the Empire and, when possible, tours of the rest of the world; and learned everywhere he went. Rajiv was given access to as much knowledge the Empire had, which allowed him to become a veritable genius; all under the careful and loving watch of his father, as well as his mother Vidya, who he married directly after his coronation ceremony. Traditional records state he placed the tiara of the Empress on Vidya's head himself, and their relationship was what many would call a storybook marriage.
In 1524, when he turned 60, he began to focus more on the consolidation of his accomplishments as well as the security of Syrixia's holdings. Traditional accounts state, infact, that as Babur got older Syrixia's stability increased. Babur died peacefully after a reign of domestic expansion and foreign exploration that would pave the way for Rajiv IV's foreign expansion; the expansion that would make Rajiv the Great Rajiv the Great. He died in 1538 at the age of 74.
Babur was the third surviving son of Akbar VIII, and his wife Vaisha. He underwent his badh hona at Rajpur, and may have been born there, probably when the imperial couple was on vacation there. Another possibility is that he was born at the Temple of Anandhi, in the nearby village of Chandisthra, during the passage of the imperial couple through there to Rajpur. What is known for certain is that he was born in 1464.
Babur was 12 when his father and his eldest brother made their first landing on the other side of the Phoenix Strait. This land had long been a base for pirates who raided the Syrixian coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the international slave market. Following this success, Babur started to explore the coast of this land, most of which was unknown to the Empire at the time. His objectives included finding the gold rumored to be hidden in the mountains there, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Syrixian coast.
At that time the ships of the Empire were too slow and too heavy to make these voyages. Under his direction, a new and much lighter ship was developed, the caravel, which could sail further and faster, and, above all, was highly maneuverable and could sail much nearer the wind, or into the wind. This made the caravel largely independent of the prevailing winds. With the caravel, Syrixian mariners explored the shallow waters and rivers as well as the open ocean with wide autonomy. In 1479, Akbar VIII appointed Babur's eldest brother Akbar governor of the new Colony of Janapadha. Babur was 15 at the time.
In 1482, his second brother Bhudev made a tour of the world, stopping in many areas in both the East and West. While largely a diplomatic mission, among his goals was to seek out geographic material for his brother Babur. Bhudev returned from his trip in 1483 with a detailed world map drafted by an August cartographer. He then promptly donated houses to the growing Privy Department of Domestic Affairs to reunite all the sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, and astronomy- into what would later become the University of Pataliputra. For other subjects like medicine or philosophy, he ordered that each room should be decorated according to each subject that was being taught.
However, a tragedy that would both help and harm him befell the Imperial family. A terrible plague struck Pataliputra and claimed the lives of both Akbar and his eldest son, as well as Bhudev. This left Babur as the sole heir to the throne, and after the plague subsided, he was crowned Emperor by the Guru-Baba in Rajpur, just as his father and his grandfather, as well as his ancestors, had been, in 1485.
It is traditionally suggested that Babur gathered at the Golden Palace a school of navigators and map-makers. While originally this was thought to be a misconception, modern historical investigation has mostly proved this traditional claim to be true. Referring to Babur's school, sixteenth-century Syrixian mathematician and cosmographer Saif Durani remarked, "from it our sailors went out well taught and provided with instruments and rules which all map makers and navigators should know."
Babur sponsored voyages, collecting a 40% tax on the profits made by naval expeditions. The massive harbor of Pataliputra provided a convenient harbor from which these expeditions left. The voyages were made in very small ships, mostly the caravel, a light and maneuverable vessel, however when conquest was to occur they were accompanied by large fleets. Most of the voyages sent out by Babur consisted of around twenty caravels that navigated by following the coast, stopping at night to tie up along some shore.
This did not satisfy Emperor Babur, however; and so he looked to explore in multiple ways, namely including conquest. The Colony of Janapadha, even including its unorganized outer territories, was still small compared to the mainland empire, and the Emperor vowed to rectify this. He secured more lands north of the original province and extended the unorganized territories, then promptly organizing them and building village after village, and city after city.
Babur then looked further, and expanded west from Janapadha to found the colony of Rashupahatra. By 1492, both expansions were covered and settled, and Syrixia was entering a renaissance of discovery and innovation unparalleled by any past ones started by the guidance of any emperor before. Many peasants began to worship him as a god, the Enlightened, the Avatar of Prajapati. It is because of him, as well as his son Rajiv, that the Syrixian Emperor is seen as a god-emperor today. No one has ever dared to thrust the Imperial House off their throne.
Babur spent the rest of his reign expanding Syrixia's colonial empire, and paving the way for Rajiv, his son, to make further accomplishments that would see him become Rajiv the Great, the most adored emperor in Syrixian history. Rajiv was given tours of the Empire and, when possible, tours of the rest of the world; and learned everywhere he went. Rajiv was given access to as much knowledge the Empire had, which allowed him to become a veritable genius; all under the careful and loving watch of his father, as well as his mother Vidya, who he married directly after his coronation ceremony. Traditional records state he placed the tiara of the Empress on Vidya's head himself, and their relationship was what many would call a storybook marriage.
In 1524, when he turned 60, he began to focus more on the consolidation of his accomplishments as well as the security of Syrixia's holdings. Traditional accounts state, infact, that as Babur got older Syrixia's stability increased. Babur died peacefully after a reign of domestic expansion and foreign exploration that would pave the way for Rajiv IV's foreign expansion; the expansion that would make Rajiv the Great Rajiv the Great. He died in 1538 at the age of 74.