of damage to a city. So is it worth damaging a whole city but saving it from other disasters? A famous conqueror who expanded the Mauryan empire through war and bloodshed but also led the empire through a peaceful time of spiritual prosperity is a good real life history example of the question: Do the ends justify the means? King Ashoka inherited the original empire of Maurya from his grandfather King Chandragupta. After he inherited this land he sought to expand it and took over the neighboring
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Chinese Han Dynasty vs. The Indian Mauryan/Gupta Empire The Han Dynasty of China and the Mauryan/Gupta Empire of India in 206 B.C.E to 550 C.E had many social and cultural differences which made them unique societies‚ but their political structure and form of government seemed to borrow ideas from each other. The social aspects of both empires had a lot in common because gender-roles‚ family and relationships were looked at in the same way. During the Mauryan/Gupta as well as the Han Dynasty‚
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The Mauryan period is an important period in the history of Indian art and architecture‚ with the foundations for Indian art being laid‚ which would later reach their height during the golden age of the Guptas. Our main pieces of evidence and material come from the time of the great Mauryan king Ashoka. Some of the finest examples of Ashokan art‚ are the famous Ashokan pillars that he erected across the country. These columns were works of art‚ architecture and engineering. The pillar was made out
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Sample A Thesis: Athens and the Mauryans differed in their political centralization and sponsorship of religion and were similar in having to defend themselves against the Persians. Topic Sentence: Athens and the Mauryans differed in their type of political control it had over people. Athens‚ as the most powerful city-state‚ was able to force other city-states into the Delian League often against their will whereas the Mauryan were organized into one single entity. Athens created a system‚
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adopted a policy of pleasing the Xiongnu by buying them off with gifts of rice‚ silk‚ and wine. INDIA- 170‚180-4‚ 175-180 The Gupta Empire is an example of a theater-state where their state acquires prestige and power. During Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga‚ hundreds of thousands of people were killed‚ wounded‚ or deported. The Mauryan Empire was India’s first centralized empire. The influence of Hindu-Buddhist culture imported from India led to the rise of larger political entities. Malay rulers used Sanskrit
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FRQ Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India Han dynasty and Mauryan/Gupta empires developed in roughly the same time frame and overlapped in the years 320 B.C.E. - 220 C.E. developing in different parts of the globes with their own unique geographies. Both the Han and Mauryan/Gupta empires developed bureaucratic governments that were ruled by kings‚ but due to the different geographical regions‚ India’s government was fragmented into local governments. The Han Dynasty of China was structured off of a
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The classical empires experienced periods of great power by centralization of power and establishing belief systems to maintain power over their empire. This is true for both Han China and Mauryan India. Both of these classical empires were very successful in the ancient world because they were able to expand and create strong political policies to keep their empires strong and stable. While both Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India built distinct political structure to ensure that their officials
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Analyze similarities and differences in methods of political control in the following empires in the classical period. Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.-550 C.E.) During the Classical period‚ Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India developed many methods of political control. Although these empires were located in different geographic regions‚ they both used social hierarchy‚ language‚ bureaucracy‚ and religion as a means of political control. Many of Classical
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The most significant difference between Imperial Rome and Mauryan/Gupta India was the structure of their governments‚ yet both empires were heavily influenced by religion and both had similar causes of their eventual downfalls. Imperial Rome and Maurya India were both run as centralized systems of bureaucracy because it kept their empires strong and more organized. The Gupta India‚ however‚ was decentralized and maintained their strong central government with an emperor and by strictly enforcing
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The essay about the Persian Empire The particular history-achaemenid The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Persia’s earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire‚ followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian. The first record of the Persians comes from an Assyrian inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them
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