![]() Alexander’s Indian campaignĪlexander was born in 356 BC at Pella in ancient Greece, and succeeded his father, king Phillip II, to the throne at the age of 20. Trade and agriculture were reformed and regulated with the building of infrastructure and standardisation of weights and measures, and provisions were made for a large standing army.Ĭhandragupta’s political mentor and chief adviser was Chanakya, also known as Kautilya and Vishnugupta, to whom is attributed the legendary Arthashastra, the pioneering Indian treatise on political science, statecraft, military strategy, and economy. ![]() ![]() With Pataliputra at its imperial centre, the Mauryan Empire for the first time unified most of South Asia.Ĭhandragupta laid the foundations of an extensive and efficient system of centralised administration and tax-collection that formed the bases of his empire. He was the architect of an empire that controlled the plains of both the Indus and the Ganga, and which stretched until the eastern and western oceans. …And that of ChandraguptaĬhandragupta Maurya’s own achievements too, were very significant. The Chola emperors Rajaraja I (985-1014) and Rajendra I (1014-1044) built formidable navies that conquered the Maldives, and reached Sri Lanka and several countries of Southeast Asia across the Bay of Bengal.
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