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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Jane Seymour, Humayun, Primo Trubar, Pietro Carnesecchi, Jean Daurat, Marin Dr i, Andrea Palladio, Francisco de Aguirre, Henry Sinclair, Moshe Alshich, Lodovico Dolce, Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Nikola ubi Zrinski, Hernando Pizarro, Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Gemma Frisius, Charles Wriothesley, Augustin Marlorat, Antoine Froment, Simon Sulzer, Vlad VI Inecatul, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Abdurashid Khan, Girolamo da Treviso, Thomas Wyndham, Alessandro Piccolomini, Cristofano Gherardi, Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, Pieter Aertsen, Isabel de Josa, Georges de Selve, Juan de Salazar de Espinosa, Livio Agresti, Antonio da Trento, Bernardo Salviati, Hedwig of Munsterberg-Oels, Margaret Clement, William Rastell, Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Giovanni Battista Averara, Qian Gu, Christophe de Thou, William Dunch, Hugh Jones, John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt, Petar Zorani, Miyoshi Masanaga, Francois Connan, Moses Najara I. Excerpt: Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (Persian: full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu'l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu'llah; OS 7 March 1508-OS 22 February 1556) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530-1540 and again from 1555-1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one. On the eve of his death in 1556, the Mughal empire spanned almost one million square kilometers. He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran Mirza, who was to become a rather bitter rival, obtained the sovereignty of Kabul and Lahore, the more northern parts of their father's empire. He originally ascended the throne at the age of 22 and was...
