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First Empires of India
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
Building an Empire• Empire – people,
nations or states under the control of ONE ruler.
• Chandragupta Maurya and his army defeat the king of eastern India.
• Starts the Mauryan Empire 321 BC.
Chandragupta Maurya• Harsh Ruler
• Built up a huge army
• Split empire into 4 provinces each ruled by a prince.
• His palace and capital city was beautiful
• 600,000 foot soldiers
• 30,000 soldiers on horses
• 9,000 elephants
HOW DO YOU KEEP UP?
Must feed them!!
Must pay them!!
Must clothe them!!
WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET
THE $$$$$$$$ ?!?!?
• He heavily taxed his people
• Took ½ of farmers’ crops
ARTHASASTRA
•BOOK THAT TEACHES HOW TO HOLD A VAST EMPIRE TOGETHER
BUILDING A VAST EMPIRE
BY: KAUTILYA
ARTHASASTRA
Asoka• Chandragupta’s
grandson takes throne in 269 BC
• Brought Mauryan Empire to its greatest height.
Asoka Spreads Buddhism• In the beginning he
was a fierce warrior
• He converts to Buddhism and starts to set up missionaries to spread Buddhism
• He was tolerant to other religions.
Gupta Empire• After Asoka’s
death, follows 500 years of trouble.
• Golden Age of Classical India–Many contributions in literature and math
Gupta Math• Most advanced math in the
world• Invented the modern use of
–The number ZERO–The decimal system–Aryabhata – calculated the year
to 365.3586805 days
Credits• Photos Used From:
– Slide 1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TajMahalbyAmalMongia.jpg– Slide 2 - www.indiasite.com/gifs/hinduarchitecture.jpg– Slide 4 - www.popcorn.co.uk/static/dumbo1.jpg– Slide 5 - http://www.privatetourturkey.com/wikipedia/Alexander%20the
%20Great%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%– Slide 6,10 and 20 – Clip Art– Slide 13 -
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_mitoscreacion/mitocrea_asoka.gif
– Slide 14 http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/51243812.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=444ED34A869CB970E28ABC19BE1421DB284831B75F48EF45
– Slide 15- http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/TSkum1.GIF– Slide 16 -
http://www.webindia123.com/history/images/goldcoin-chandragupta%20I%20period.jpg
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