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Why did the Emperors rule the
region around Pataliputra, the
provinces and the forests
differently? Could they have made
common rules or laws for all the
three regions?
Answers
Answer:
In 326 B.C. Alexander the Great, continuing his conquest of the Persian
Empire (see ch. 2), brought his phalanxes into the easternmost Persian satrapy
in the Indus valley, defeating local Punjab rulers. When his weary troops
refused to advance further eastward into the Ganges plain, Alexander
constructed a fleet and explored the Indus to its mouth. From there he
returned overland to Babylon, while his fleet skirted the coast of the Arabian
Sea and reached the Persian Gulf.
After Alexander's death in 323 B.C., the empire he had built so rapidly
quickly disintegrated, and by 321 B.C. his domain in the Punjab had completely
disappeared. But he had opened routes between India and the West that would remain open during the following Hellenistic and Roman periods, and by destroying the petty states in the Punjab he facilitated - and perhaps
inspired - the conquests of India's own first emperor.
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