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Chandragupta Maurya

Also called: Sandrokottos

Founder of the Maurya Empire (r. c. 322–c. 298 BCE) who overthrew the Nanda dynasty and first united northern India

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    322 BCFounding of the Maurya Empiremonarch

    Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda dynasty of Magadha and founded India’s first unifying empire, with its capital at Pataliputra.

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  • Ancient China and India770 BC – AD 220

    From the Hundred Schools of the Warring States to the unified empires of Qin and Han, and from the Buddha to the Maurya and Kushan empires — the millennium that shaped East and South Asian civilisation