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during the mayura period std 6th important points of that lesson​

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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