![]() ![]() 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. Subsequently, Ghenghis Khan (1162-1227) stamped his authority over a bigger swathe of Asia and Europe, and other conquerors such as Tamerlane, Atilla the Hun, and Charlemagne, as well as Ashoka, Akbar, and Aurangzeb built their own very large empires. He had established, before he turned 30 years of age, the largest empire the world had seen until then, which stretched across modern western and central Asia all the way from Greece to India’s northwestern frontier. Click here for more The ‘greatness’ of Alexander…Īlexander came to be called ‘great’ because of his stupendous military conquests which dazzled European writers and chroniclers of the ancient world. ![]()
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