maurya & gupta empire
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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.
FAMOUS PEOPLE