CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corn Beer, Germanic Kingship, Yellow Fever
10 Sep 2017
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Chandragupta maurya founded the mauryan dynasty after alexander the great left the western borders of india. Chandragupta maurya used marriage alliances, diplomacy, trickery, and war to extend his kingdom. King was head of state and controlled the military, executive, judiciary, and legislature. Kingdom divided into provinces under governors, who are royal princes provinces divided into towns and villages with district and village administrators. Large spy network and large army until they were disbanded by ashoka after battle of. Chandragupta was hindu and later converted to jainism. After the battle at kalinga, ashoka converted to buddhism and sent monks abroad. Built stupas buddhist monuments that have buddha figures or relics. Trade with ordinary citizens and the state. Pillars and signpost that ashoka put up were written in sanskrit. Ashoka wrote edicts and rules for religious education. The mauryan kings after ashoka were killed by general and found the shunga dynasty. The roman empire, italy and around the mediterranean.
