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Page 1: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

INDIAN EMPIRES

Page 2: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

MAURYAN EMPIRE

Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.

Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

Highly centralized gov’t

Page 3: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

MAURYAN CONT.

Asoka – greatest rule of the empire, maybe all of India????

Adopted Buddhists ideas to improve the empire (hospitals, trees and shelters along roads…)

Page 4: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

MAURYANS CONT.

Under Asoka, India also became a regional economic/trading power

Page 5: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

KUSHAN EMPIRE

Nomadic warriors Prospered from trade between

Mediterranean and Pacific Rim countries

Silk Road Shaped by surrounding societies

Page 6: INDIAN EMPIRES. MAURYAN EMPIRE  Founded by Chandragupta Maurya – he ruled from 324 B.C. – 301 B.C.  Capital was in northeastern India (modern-day Patna)

GUPTA EMPIRE

Founded by Chandra Gupta in 320

Same capital as the Mauryans

Became the dominant power in northern India, loose control of central India

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GUPTA CONT.

Golden age of Indian culture

Hindu and Buddhist arts flourished

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GUPTAS CONT.

Traded with China, SE Asia and the Mediterranean

Many pilgrims came to India to see Hindu and Buddhists temples and shrines