Facts about India
- Chandragupta Maurya established the Mauryan Empire
- Battled Seleucus - Roman general under Alexander the Great
- Seleucus/Alexander wanted to regain control of the Indus Valley
- Seleucus lost
- army consisted of 600,000 footsoldiers, 30,000 cavalry, and 9,000 elephants
- high taxes to pay for troops
- Seleucus sent an ambassador named Megasthenes to Chadragupta's capital
- Megasthenes admired Chandragupta's palace and wrote fondly of it
- Chandragupta's grandson, Asoka, brought Maurya to it's heights
- After Asoka died, the Andhra Dynasty arose
- The Andhras profited from extensive trade
- People from other parts of Asia seeking political stability feld to Northern India
- In South India, there were three kingdoms that spoke Tamil and were at war with one another
- Chandra Gupta introduced the Gupta Empire along with the Hindu culture