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The Mauryan Empire in ancient India is considered the first empire establishing an extensive unified culture. The duration of the Mauryan dynasty's rule was from approximately 325 B.C.E to 183 B.C.E. Included within the confines of India at that time was much of modern-day Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. This area was larger than any previously controlled within the Indian subcontinent. Through the unification of individual governing entities, the Mauryan Empire marked the first time that all of India had been brought together under one rule.
Ancient India, beginning around 600 B.C.E was divided into sixteen individually ruled kingdoms, the most powerful of which being Magadha. Magadha had conquered neighboring kingdoms, extending its control of northern India from the Bay of Bengal in the East to the Indus River valley in the West. The final ruler of the Nanda dynasty that controlled Magadha, Dhana Nanda, was an abrasive force with power derived from the threat of violence by way of an extensive army. After Alexander the Great conquered Persia, he led his Macedonian and Greek troops into Northwest India around 326 B.C.E attempting to further his reign by conquering Indian territories. The initial campaign changed the political dynamic of Northern India, but was brought to a halt when Alexander's troops heard rumors of Dhana Nanda's infantry awaiting the invader's arrival. Alexander the Great's army mutinied, refusing to attack, thus compelling Alexander to return to Macedonia where, on the way, he was met with an unexpected death in 323 B.C.E. The political vacuum remaining from the invasion and subsequent demise of Alexander the Great provided opportunity for the ruler of a growing state in the Ganges Valley to rise to power. .
Chandragupta Maurya benefited from the crisis caused by Alexander's invasion, utilizing the turmoil to expand his own territories. At approximately twenty-five years of age, between the years of 324 B.
For example, as stated in the textbook Invitation to World Religions, Ashoka, emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty's views are depicted: "The many edicts he (Ashoka) ordered disseminated throughout his empire, often carved on rock pillars, proclaimed his desire to promote moral purification and self-awareness, to end unnecessary violence done to animals, and to honor and respect all religious viewpoints" (Brodd 190). ...
The Life and Teachings of Siddhartha Gautama The region that lay among the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains in the farthest northern regions of India in Nepal is where the life of "the Buddha", Siddhartha Gautama begins. There are thousands of legends and stories that are not certain to b...
The middle of the twentieth century was the era of V. Gordon Childe and his application of the "stair-step" model of human history. Childe believed that the history followed a pattern of progress. Each step up marked a new revolution, and the plateau in the step mirrored a plateau in human progress....
In many countries, such as India and Greece, the environment plays a major role in making a living. And in turn, production greatly influences the formation of cultures that can be very similar and different. The development of intensive crop agriculture, the development of cities and city states,...
Patronage in Early Medieval Rajasthan: the making and maintaining of the Dilwara Temples, Mt. Abu, Rajasthan. We visit a temple to either offer our prayers to the deity or admire the overall art and architecture of it. Admiring the aspects of art and architecture would generally include the form and...
Globalization1 Globalization is the process through which the world is being made into one place with systemic properties. This process is both historically variable and multidimensional. It involves interconnections across some boundaries and the dissolving of other boundaries. It also precipit...
In human nature there seems to be some innate requirement to create particular groups of people and to erect barriers that distinguish, encompass and protect these groups from others. Over time people have looked to a huge variety of features by which these collectives may be defined, groups have been and are classified along religious, economic, social and cultural lines to name but a few. There are a multitude of stimuli for the formation of these different distinguishing features, but once the features have been recognized and the group has been formed, the individual will cling to this gro...
Sri Lanka had been under going a terrorist problem for over 20 years, thanks in part to the politicians, terrorists themselves and unscrupulous business interests. Over the years thousands of lives have been lost including the lives of a few of my friends. Some people choose to call it an ethnic war...