In what way do you think cities like Takshashila, Suvarnagiri were important for the Mauryans?
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Takshashila, Suvarnagiri were important to the Mauryans because they are said to be the main centre attraction of the administration and knowledge at that time.
People were dependent on their rules and were the main hub of the culture and learning for the global setting. They were extremely famous for this.
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 187 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).[6][7] The empire was the largest political entity to have existed in the Indian subcontinent, spanning over 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles) at its zenith under Ashoka[8].