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Question
Answer the following question in one or two words/sentences:
State any one major cause of the decline of the Mughal empire.
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Solution
A major cause of the decline of the Mughal empire was the continuous wars (especially Aurangzeb’s Deccan campaigns and wars with the Marathas), which drained the treasury and weakened the empire.
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