ASIAN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maurya Empire, Medieval India, Middle Kingdoms Of India
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Asian 101- lecture 2- jainism and medieval india. Kingdom of magadha occurred in 600-321 bce. This kingdom was the most significant of central ganges plain. They had agriculture, traded in the ganges valley and bay of bengal. This kingdom dominated all the surrounding areas in the north-eastern parts of india. In 520 bce, persian emperor darius conquered north-west india. In 327 bce, alexander of macedon destroyed the persian empire in india. The art became in a hellenistic style. The ruler of the mauryan dynasty was chandragupta maurya. Maurya took advantage of power and overthrew the magadha rulers. Legend states that maurya retired to become a monk and starved himself to death. Maurya expanded the kingdom and created the first unified indian empire. The mauryan dynasty lasted from 321-185 bce. The government recorded in arthashastra which was the manual of political statecraft. The policies of the government were like the domestic policies, persian style.
