The Middle East empire we chose was the Mughal Empire. This empire controlled most of South Asia and they were founded in 1526. The first emperor was Babur and from then on his family ruled after him. His line of descendants are Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb. After Aurangzeb died the Mughal empire started to disintegrat. Their empire died in 1857.