At its greatest extent, the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, to the east into Assam, to the west into Balochistan southwest Pakistan and southeast Iran and into the Hindu Kush mountains of what is now Afghanistan.
According to several legends, Chanakya traveled to Magadha, a kingdom that was large and militarily powerful and feared by its neighbors, but was insulted by its king Dhana Nanda, of the Nanda Dynasty. Chanakya swore revenge and vowed to destroy the Nanda Empire.
At its greatest extent, the empire ruled by the Nanda Dynasty extended from Bengal in the east, to the Punjab region in the west, and as far south as the Vindhya Range. The rulers of this dynasty were famed for the great wealth that they accumulated.
Chanakya encouraged the young Chandragupta Maurya and his army to take over the throne of Magadha. Using his intelligence network, Chandragupta gathered many young men from across Magadha and other provinces, who were upset over the corrupt and oppressive rule of King Dhana, as well as the resources necessary for his army to fight a long series of battles.
These men included the former general of Taxila, accomplished students of Chanakya, the representative of King Porus of Kakayee, his son Malayketu, and the rulers of small states. Maurya devised a strategy to invade Pataliputra, the capital of the Nanda Empire. Upon the civil unrest in the kingdom, Nanda resigned and disappeared into exile.
Chanakya contacted the prime minister, Rakshasa, and convinced him that his loyalty was to Magadha, not to the Nanda Dynasty, and that he should remain in office. Chanakya reiterated that choosing to resist would start a war that would severely affect Magadha and destroy the city. With his new seat of power in Magadha, Chandragupta Maurya defeated the remaining Macedonian satraps, and consolidated his reign of the new Maurya Empire. The Maurya Empire c.
After winning the Seleucid-Mauryan war, the Maurya Empire expanded into the southern Indian subcontinent under the rule of Ashoka the Great. In BCE, Emperor Chandragupta Maurya led a series of campaigns to retake the satrapies left behind by Alexander the Great when he returned westward. Seleucus I fought to defend these territories, but both sides made peace in BCE.
Seleucus established himself in Babylon in BC, the year used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucid Empire was a major center of Hellenistic culture. In the areas where a Greek-Macedonian political elite dominated mostly urban , it maintained the preeminence of Greek customs. Little is known of the campaign in which Chandragupta fought with Seleucus over the Indus Valley and the region of Gandhara— a very wealthy kingdom that had submitted decades earlier to Alexander the Great.
Seleucus lost the Seleucid-Mauryan War, and the two rulers reconciled with a peace treaty. The Greeks offered a Macedonian princess for marriage to Chandragupta, and several territories, including the satrapies of Paropamisade modern-day Kamboja and Gandhara , Arachosia modern-day Kandhahar , and Gedrosia modern-day Balochistan. In addition to this treaty, Seleucus dispatched two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and, later, Deimakos, to the Mauryan court at Pataliputra.
Thus, continuing ties between the Hellenistic world and the Mauryan Empire. During his reign, Bindusara expanded the Maurya Empire southward, with Chanakya as his advisor. He brought 16 states under the Maurya Empire and thus conquered almost all of the Indian peninsula.
As a young prince, Ashoka r. But it was his conquest of Kalinga BCE that proved to be the pivotal event of his life. Hundreds of thousands of people were adversely affected by the destruction and fallout of war. When he personally witnessed the devastation, Ashoka began feeling remorse. Although the annexation of Kalinga was completed, Ashoka embraced the teachings of Buddhism, and renounced war and violence.
He sent out missionaries to travel around Asia and spread Buddhism to other countries. While he maintained a large and powerful army to keep the peace, Ashoka expanded friendly relations with states across Asia and Europe, and sponsored Buddhist missions. He undertook a massive public works building campaign across the country.
Among these works were the construction of stupas , or Buddhist religious structures, containing relics. Over 40 years of peace, harmony, and prosperity made Ashoka one of the most successful and famous monarchs in Indian history. He remains an idealized figure of inspiration in modern India. Perhaps one of the greatest-known accomplishments of Ashoka was his creation of his edicts, which were erected between BCE and BCE.
The Edicts of Ashoka, set in stone, are found throughout the Subcontinent. Although predominantly written in Prakrit, two of them were written in Greek, and one in both Greek and Aramaic.
For this, the Edicts of Ashoka are known as an early document that promoted religious tolerance. Kabul Museum. The Mauryan Empire encouraged economic prosperity through political stability and a unified central government. Employing a carefully organized bureaucratic system, the Maurya Empire was able to maintain security and political unity across large parts of western and southern Asia.
This included a common economic system supporting stable agriculture in its vast landholdings, as well as successful trade and commerce. Through this centralized authority, which included a powerful military, the rulers of the empire bound together the previously fractured regions of the Indian Subcontinent. Before the Mauryan Empire, the Indian subcontinent was fragmented into hundreds of kingdoms. These were ruled by powerful regional chieftains with small armies that engaged in internecine warfare.
The Mauryan Army eliminated regional chieftains, private armies, and even gangs of bandits, who sought to impose their own supremacy in small areas. The Mauryan Army, the largest standing military force of its time, supported the expansion and defense of the empire. According to scholars, the empire wielded , infantry, 30, cavalry, and 9, war elephants, while a vast espionage system collected intelligence for both internal and external security purposes. Although Emperor Ashoka renounced offensive warfare and expansionism, he maintained this standing army to protect the empire from external threats and maintain stability and peace across Western and Southern Asia.
The Mauryan Empire was divided into four provinces, with the imperial capital at Pataliputra, near the Ganges River in the modern state of Bihar in India. On the other hand, the Maratha Empire was relatively recent and small in size covering an area of 2. Maratha dynasty was responsible for reestablishing of Hindu culture and religion in India. It was the biggest and earliest empire in the, which was established by an Indian dynasty.
The Maurya Empire began in B. E and occupied an area of approximately 5,, square kilometers. It emerged as a result of a combination of states in the northern India that created one state.
Apparently, it developed during the time of the rise of Alexander the Great. Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of Maurya Empire. The policies and laws of the empire were formulated by Chanakya ministers, which led to the empire to thrive. The empire also signed treaties with the generals of Alexander the great where it conquered territories in Iran and Afghanistan.
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