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Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Sinha's to set up the Mauryan empire​

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The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya, which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE. Comprising the majority of South Asia, the Maurya Empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna).[15][16] The empire was the largest political entity that has existed in the Indian subcontinent, extending over 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles) at

Maurya Empire

322 BCE – 184 BCE

Maximum extent of the Maurya Empire, as shown by the location of Ashoka's inscriptions, and visualized by historians: Vincent Arthur Smith;[1] R. C. Majumdar;[2] and historical geographer Joseph E. Schwartzberg.[3]

Maximum extent of the Maurya Empire, as shown by the location of Ashoka's inscriptions, and visualized by historians: Vincent Arthur Smith;[1] R. C. Majumdar;[2] and historical geographer Joseph E. Schwartzberg.[3]

Territories of the Maurya Empire conceptualized as core areas or linear networks separated by large autonomous regions in the works of scholars such as: historians Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund;[4] Burton Stein;[5] David Ludden;[6] and Romila Thapar;[7] anthropologists Monica L. Smith[8] and Stanley Tambiah;[7] archaeologist Robin Coningham;[7] and historical demographer Tim Dyson.[9]

Territories of the Maurya Empire conceptualized as core areas or linear networks separated by large autonomous regions in the works of scholars such as: historians Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund;[4] Burton Stein;[5] David Ludden;[6] and Romila Thapar;[7] anthropologists Monica L. Smith[8] and Stanley Tambiah;[7] archaeologist Robin Coningham;[7] and historical demographer Tim Dyson.[9]

Capital

Pataliputra

(Present-day Patna, Bihar)

Common languages

Magadhi Prakrit

Religion

Hinduism

Buddhism

Jainism

Ajivika

Greek polytheism (northwest)

Zoroastrianism (northwest)[10]

Government

Absolute monarchy, as described in Kautilya's Arthashastra

and Rajamandala[11]

Emperor

• 322–298 BCE

Chandragupta

• 298–272 BCE

Bindusara

• 268–232 BCE

Ashoka

• 232–224 BCE

Dasharatha

• 224–215 BCE

Samprati

• 215–202 BCE

Shalishuka

• 202–195 BCE

Devavarman

• 195–187 BCE

Shatadhanvan

• 187–180 BCE

Brihadratha

Historical era

Iron Age

• Conquest of the Nanda Empire

322 BCE

• Assassination of Brihadratha by Pushyamitra Shunga

184 BCE

Area

• Total

5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mi) (1st In India)

261 BCE[12]

3,400,000 km2 (1,300,000 sq mi)

250 BCE[13]

5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mi)

Population

• 261 BCE[14]

50 million

Currency

Panas

Preceded by Succeeded by

Nanda Empire

Mahajanapada

Magadha

Patliputra

Taxila

Shunga Empire

Satavahana dynasty

Mahameghavahana dynasty

Indo-Scythians

Indo-Greek Kingdom

Vidarbha kingdom (Mauryan era)

Today part of

India

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Nepal

Afghanistan

Chandragupta Maurya raised an army, with the assistance of Chanakya, author of Arthasastra,[17] and overthrew the Nanda Empire in c. 322 BCE. Chandragupta rapidly expanded his power westwards across central and western India by conquering the satraps left by Alexander the Great, and by 317 BCE the empire had fully occupied northwestern India.[18] The Mauryan Empire then defeated Seleucus I, a diadochus and founder of the Seleucid Empire, during the Seleucid–Mauryan war, thus acquiring territory west of the Indus River.[19][20]

At its greatest extent, the empire stretched along the natural boundary of the Himalayas, to the east into Bengal, to the west into what is present-day Balochistan, Pakistan and the Hindu Kush mountains of what is now eastern Afghanistan.[21] The dynasty expanded into India's southern regions[22][23] by the reign of the emperor Bindusara, but it excluded Kalinga (modern Odisha), until it was conquered by Ashoka.[24] It declined for about 50 years after Ashoka's rule, and dissolved in 185 BCE with the foundation of the Shunga dynasty in Magadha.

Under Chandragupta Maurya and his successors, internal and external trade, agriculture, and economic activities thrived and expanded across South Asia due to the creation of a single and efficient system of finance, administration, and security. The Maurya dynasty built the Grand Trunk Road, one of Asia's oldest and longest trade networks, connecting the north of the Indian subcontinent from east to west.[25] After the Kalinga War, the Empire experienced nearly half a century of centralized rule under Ashoka. Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased socio-religious reform across South Asia, while Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism and sponsorship of Buddhist missionaries allowed for the expansion of that faith into Sri Lanka, northwest India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Egypt, and Hellenistic Europe.[26]

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False, General Pusyamitra Sunga overthrew the Sinha's to set up the Mauryan empire

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