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Aim: How Did The Mauryas & Guptas Rule India?: DO NOW: Explain The Basic Beliefs of Buddhism
Aim: How Did The Mauryas & Guptas Rule India?: DO NOW: Explain The Basic Beliefs of Buddhism
Aim: How Did The Mauryas & Guptas Rule India?: DO NOW: Explain The Basic Beliefs of Buddhism
Chandragupta Maurya
- Conquered Northern
India
- drove out Alexander the
Greats successors
- Chandragupta Maurya
(reigned 322-298 BC)
- Extended his conquest
into Afghanistan and
eastern Iran.
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King Asoka
Asoka/ Ashoka
Bindusara was followed by his
son, Asoka (reigned 272-232 BC).
Asoka was one of the most
remarkable, and admirable, rulers
in the whole of world history.
Why might a ruler be admired?
Indian Achievements:
Indian mathematicians
devised the number
system we use today,
featuring nine numerals,
the zero, and the decimal.
Medicine
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is the name which the ancient Indians gave to
their science of medicine. Ayuh means life and veda to
know or attain. Ayurveda is the science by the knowledge
of which life can be prolonged or its nature understood.