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Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow: A warning for Europe Bernier warned tharif Earopeankings fotlowed the Mughal model: Their kingdoms would be very far from being well- cultivated and peopled, so well built, so rich, so polite and flourishing as we see them. Our kings are otherwise rich and powerful, and we must avow rhat they are much better and more royally served. They would soon be kings of deserts and solitudes, of beggars and barbarians, such as those are whom I have been representing (the Mughals).. We should find the great Cities and the great Burroughs (boroughs) rendered uninhabitable because of ill air, and to fall to ruine (ruin) without any bodies (anybody) taking care of repairing them, the hillocks abandon'd, and the fields overspread with bushes or fill'd with pestilential marishes (marshes), as hath been already intimated. In what ways did Bernier condemn Mughal rulers ?

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Solution : Bernier condemns the Mughals as the kings of deserts, solitudes, BEGGARS and BARBARIANS.


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