14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors Of South India
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Assassination of the Sultan
The moroccan traveller ibon batuta visited the deli sultan during this time and wrote his account once he was safely back in his home city of fez. He claims that the pavilion collapse was planned an assassination, orchestrated by the king's younger son mohammed bin tugluk. The scheme was that whenever the elephants would tread on one side of it, the whole building would fall in ruins. They ed away the ruins and found the sultan dead with his back bent over his son to protect him. As with many rulers who came to power through treachery, mohammedbin tugluk spent his reign in a state of deep paranoia,. always afraid that
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