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- The Mauryan Empire began when Chandragupta Maurya gathered an army, killed the unpopular Nanda king, and claimed the throne.
Chandragupta moved northwest and began to seize all the land from Magadha to the Indus.
Chandragupta began to battle Seleucus I, one of Alexander the Great's generals, who wanted to reestablish Macedonian control over the Indus valley.
Chandragupta won the battle and by 303 B.C. the Mauryan Empire stretched more than 2,000 miles.
This united north India politically for the first time
To win his battle, Chandragupta raised a battle of 600,000 soldiers on foot, 30,000 on horseback, and 9,000 elephants
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- People urged for religious tolerance, or acceptance of people who held different religious beliefs
- Asoka built roads so that he could visit the far corners of India, make travel easier for his officials, and improve communication within the empire
- Asoka had wells dug and rest houses built every 9 miles
- After Asoka died in 232 B.C, kings challenged the imperial government and the kingdoms soon regained their independence
- The Andhra Dynasty dominated for hundreds of years
- Andhras profited from extensive trade
- Northern India absorbed a flood of people fleeing from political instability in Asia
- Greeks and Persians poured into northern India
- These new invaders disrupted India society but introduced new cultures
- South India was home to three kingdoms which were often at war
- The people spoke the language Tamil and were called the Tamil people