ANCIENT

INDIA

MAURYA EMPIRE

322 – 184 B.C.E. KNOWN AS ONE OF THE

GREATEST EMPIRE OF INDIA PRODUCT OF POLITICAL

DEVELOPMENT FROM RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

FOUNDED AFTER ALEXANDER’S DEPARTURE

INDIA’S 1ST EMPIRE

CONQUERED THE NORTHWEST REGION OF INDIA IN 327 B.C.

CONRTIBUTION: LAND AND SEA TRADE ROUTES

CREATED A POLITICAL VACUUM

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

FOUNDED THE MAURYA EMPIRE

YOUNG GENERAL OF NANDA DYNASTY OF MAGADHA EMPIRE

ORGANIZED A POWERFUL ARMY AND EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION

MARRIED A GREEK PRINCESS AS MARK OF RECONCILIATION TO GREECE

CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA

SON OF CHANDRAGUPTA

SECOND KNOWN EMPEROR

CONQUERED DECCA

BINDUSARA

BINDUSARA

GREATEST MAURYAN EMPEROR

GRANDSON OF CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA

CONCERN IN INVASION

KALINGA OR EASTERN INDIA

CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM FROM HINDUISM

ADOPTED THE IDEA OF AHIMSA

ASHOKA

ASHOKA

INVADERS

FROM GREECE

GANDHARAN ART OR COINAGE

TRADE BETWEEN INDIA AND MIDDLE EAST

YAVANAS

FROM CASPIAN SEA ALSO KNOWN AS PAHLAVAS FIRST BATTLED INIRAN AND MESOPOTAMIA FROMH SELEUCIDS INTRUDE INTO NORTWEST INDIA OCCUPIED THE LOWER INDUS

VALLEY

PARTHIANS

FROM CENTRAL ASIA

SPREAD IN PUNJAB

SETTLED IN GIJARAT

SCYTHIANS/ SHAKAS

FROM CENTAL ASIA

LED BY KING KANISHKA

FISRT RULED IN PUNJAB

EXTENDED THE CONTROL SOUTHWARD

STRADDLED THE BUSIEST COMMERCIAL ROUTE

USED BUDDHA AND PERSIA IN COINS

PROTECTED JAINISM AND BRAHMANISM

KUSHANS

BELIEVE TO ARRIEVED IN 52 A.D. I MALABAR COAST OF SOUTHWEST INDIA

ESTABLISH NUMBER OF CHURCHES

ST. THOMAS

GUPTA EMPIRE

CONTROL OVER NORTHERN INDIA

NORTH INDIA EMPIRE

GOLDEN AGE OF INDIA

FOUNDER OF GUPTA EMPIRE

BASED WAS IN MAGADHA IN GANGES VALLEY

USED SANSKRIT AS ITS LANGUAGE

CHANDRAGUPTA I

GRANDSON OF CHANDRAGUPTA I

GUPTA WAS AT ITS HEIGHT

FOUNDED WORLDS FIRST UNIVERSITIES AT BUDDHIST MONASTERIES

REVIVED SANSKRIT AS LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE

HINDU FOLKTALES WAS RECORDED

INTRODUCED STANDARD GOLD AND SILVER COINS

TRADES AND CRAFTS

CHANDRAGUPTA II

LAST INDIAN NATIVE RULER

REUNITED THE NORTHERN NDIA

CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM FROM HINDUISM

HARSHA

BRIEF UNITY AND PROLONGED FRAGMENTATION

UNITY IN CULTURE THAN IN POLITICAL

CULTURE WAS LOYALTY IN SOCIAL CLASSS

SINGLE CIVILIZATION

IMPORT LESS, EXPORT MORE

INFLUENCES

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

HEALTH CARE

ORCHARDS AND RESTING PLACES ON HIGHWAYS

MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA

EARTH IS SPHERE AND ROTATES IN ITS OWN AXIS

LUNAE ECLIPSE AS A SHADOW OF EARTH FALLING TO MOON

SOLAR YEAR

CONTRIBUTION

KALIDASA – “ SHAKESPEARE OF INDIA”

ARYABHATA – ONE OF THE MOST GREATEST FIGURE IN HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

VARAMIHIRA – MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION IN NATURAL SCIENCES.

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