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Leader analysis:
Name of leader: Ashoka country/region: India Lifespan: 304 BC- 232 BC Title: Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty years in power: 269 BC to 232 BC
Political conditions prior to leader’s gaining power:
The Mauryan Empire was perhaps the largest empire ever to dominate the Indian subcontinent. Administration of Mauryan dynasty emote a stupendous instance, in which the top order established solemn groundwork for their descendants.Chandragupta Maurya, the founder king of the Mauryan Dynasty, represents the quintessence of the Mauryan kings, who materialised the very idea of political unification of India.
social condition prior to leader’s gaining power:
Among the more significant changes which had taken place by the middle of the first millennium B.C. was the development of towns and urban culture. The coming of Aryan culture based on pastoralism and agrarian village communities. It resulted in the entire process of development from village cultures to urban cultures being re-experienced in northern India. Towns evolved from trade centres and craft villages, and consequently the dominant institution of urban life was the guild.
economic condition prior to leader’s gaining power:
Land revenue had been recognised as a major source of state income before the Mauryas. The proverbial wealth of the Nandas was doubtless due to their efficient collection of revenue from the fertile middle Ganga plain.
ideology, motivation, goals:
Ashoka goals were to bring Buddhist values, general welfare, justice, and security.
significant actions & events during term of power:
Ashoka's military power was so strong that he was able to crush those empires that went to war against him. Ashoka also planted trees in his empire and his neighboring countries. Ashoka was perhaps the first emperor in human history to ban slavery, hunting, fishing and deforestation. Ashoka also
Name of leader: Ashoka country/region: India Lifespan: 304 BC- 232 BC Title: Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty years in power: 269 BC to 232 BC
Political conditions prior to leader’s gaining power:
The Mauryan Empire was perhaps the largest empire ever to dominate the Indian subcontinent. Administration of Mauryan dynasty emote a stupendous instance, in which the top order established solemn groundwork for their descendants.Chandragupta Maurya, the founder king of the Mauryan Dynasty, represents the quintessence of the Mauryan kings, who materialised the very idea of political unification of India.
social condition prior to leader’s gaining power:
Among the more significant changes which had taken place by the middle of the first millennium B.C. was the development of towns and urban culture. The coming of Aryan culture based on pastoralism and agrarian village communities. It resulted in the entire process of development from village cultures to urban cultures being re-experienced in northern India. Towns evolved from trade centres and craft villages, and consequently the dominant institution of urban life was the guild.
economic condition prior to leader’s gaining power:
Land revenue had been recognised as a major source of state income before the Mauryas. The proverbial wealth of the Nandas was doubtless due to their efficient collection of revenue from the fertile middle Ganga plain.
ideology, motivation, goals:
Ashoka goals were to bring Buddhist values, general welfare, justice, and security.
significant actions & events during term of power:
Ashoka's military power was so strong that he was able to crush those empires that went to war against him. Ashoka also planted trees in his empire and his neighboring countries. Ashoka was perhaps the first emperor in human history to ban slavery, hunting, fishing and deforestation. Ashoka also