First Empires of India

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Building an Empire• Empire – people,

nations or states under the control of ONE ruler.

• Chandragupta Maurya and his army defeat the king of eastern India.

• Starts the Mauryan Empire 321 BC.

Chandragupta Maurya• Harsh Ruler

• Built up a huge army

• Split empire into 4 provinces each ruled by a prince.

• His palace and capital city was beautiful

• 600,000 foot soldiers

• 30,000 soldiers on horses

• 9,000 elephants

HOW DO YOU KEEP UP?

Must feed them!!

Must pay them!!

Must clothe them!!

WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET

THE $$$$$$$$ ?!?!?

• He heavily taxed his people

• Took ½ of farmers’ crops

ARTHASASTRA

•BOOK THAT TEACHES HOW TO HOLD A VAST EMPIRE TOGETHER

BUILDING A VAST EMPIRE

BY: KAUTILYA

ARTHASASTRA

Asoka• Chandragupta’s

grandson takes throne in 269 BC

• Brought Mauryan Empire to its greatest height.

Asoka Spreads Buddhism• In the beginning he

was a fierce warrior

• He converts to Buddhism and starts to set up missionaries to spread Buddhism

• He was tolerant to other religions.

Gupta Empire• After Asoka’s

death, follows 500 years of trouble.

• Golden Age of Classical India–Many contributions in literature and math

Gupta Math• Most advanced math in the

world• Invented the modern use of

–The number ZERO–The decimal system–Aryabhata – calculated the year

to 365.3586805 days

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