1. The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasry from 322 to 185 BCE.
2. Originating from the kingdom Magabha in the Indo-Gangetic plains in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital at Pataliputra.
3. The Empire was founded in 322 BCE by Chandragupta Maurya, who had overthrown the Nada Dynasty and rapidly expanded his power westwards across central and wesrern India taking advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawl westwards by Alexander the Great's Greek and Persian armies.
4. By 320 BCE the empire had fully occupied Northwesrern India, defeating and conquering the satraps left by Alexander.
5. The Maurya Empire was one of the world's largest empire in it's time, largest ever in the Indian subcontinent.
6. At its greatest extent, the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, and to the east stretching into what is now Assam.
7. To the west, it conquered beyond modern Pakistan, annexing Khorasan, Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces.
8. The Empire was extended into India's central and southern regions by the emperors Chandragupta and Bindusara, but it excludeda small portion of unexplored tribal and forested regions near Kalinga, until it was conqured by Ashoka.
9. Its decline began 60 years after Ashoka's rule ended, and it dissolved in 185 BCE with the foundation of the Sunga Dynasty in Magadha.
10. Under Chandragupta, the Mauryan Empire conqured the trans-Indus region, which was under Macedonian rule.
2. Originating from the kingdom Magabha in the Indo-Gangetic plains in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital at Pataliputra.
3. The Empire was founded in 322 BCE by Chandragupta Maurya, who had overthrown the Nada Dynasty and rapidly expanded his power westwards across central and wesrern India taking advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawl westwards by Alexander the Great's Greek and Persian armies.
4. By 320 BCE the empire had fully occupied Northwesrern India, defeating and conquering the satraps left by Alexander.
5. The Maurya Empire was one of the world's largest empire in it's time, largest ever in the Indian subcontinent.
6. At its greatest extent, the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, and to the east stretching into what is now Assam.
7. To the west, it conquered beyond modern Pakistan, annexing Khorasan, Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces.
8. The Empire was extended into India's central and southern regions by the emperors Chandragupta and Bindusara, but it excludeda small portion of unexplored tribal and forested regions near Kalinga, until it was conqured by Ashoka.
9. Its decline began 60 years after Ashoka's rule ended, and it dissolved in 185 BCE with the foundation of the Sunga Dynasty in Magadha.
10. Under Chandragupta, the Mauryan Empire conqured the trans-Indus region, which was under Macedonian rule.