Question

why did the mauryan empire decline ?

Answer 1

Decline of the Mauryan Empire :-

✴After the death of Ashok in 232 BCE the Mauryan rulers continued to rule for about another half a century.

✴The disorder that emerged in the administrative machinery after his death is regarded as one of the factors for the disintegration of the Mauryan Empire

The reasons were -

• Ashok was succeeded by weak and inefficient rulers
• The vastness of the empire made it difficult to control the far flung territories
• The provincial viceroys took advantage of thr absence of a strong central authority and declared their independence.
• The enormous expenditure of maintaining a large army drained the treasury