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Who founded the Maurya Empire around 320 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →Which city was the capital of the Mauryan Empire?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greek ambassador wrote the book Indika about the Mauryan court?Read the answer and worked solution →Seleucus sent Megasthenes as his ambassador to which Mauryan king?Read the answer and worked solution →How many war elephants did Seleucus I receive in his treaty with Chandragupta?Read the answer and worked solution →After which war did Ashoka embrace Buddhism and promote it through edicts?Read the answer and worked solution →In about which year BCE did Ashoka conquer Kalinga?Read the answer and worked solution →In which language were most Ashokan edicts written?Read the answer and worked solution →Besides Prakrit, which language was used for some Ashokan edicts?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two children of Ashoka led his Buddhist mission to Sri Lanka?Read the answer and worked solution →Ashoka is believed to have built about how many stupas across India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Buddhist council did Ashoka help convene near his capital?Read the answer and worked solution →The capital of which Ashokan pillar became the State Emblem of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bird is thought to have been the Maurya dynasty's emblem?Read the answer and worked solution →According to a Jain text, where did Chandragupta Maurya observe santhara, a fast unto death?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greek ambassador served at the court of Bindusara?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kingdom, now Odisha, stayed outside Bindusara's empire until his son took it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which general killed the last Maurya king Brihadratha in 180 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the grandson of Ashoka that succeeded him as emperor?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these was a provincial capital of Ashoka's empire in the south?Read the answer and worked solution →Per Megasthenes, how many infantry did the Mauryan army have?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Mauryan system, who owned all the land?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the official head of a Mauryan village called?Read the answer and worked solution →Into how many boards was the Pataliputra city council divided?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greco-Bactrian king formed the Indo-Greek Kingdom around 180 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly when did the Gupta Empire exist?Read the answer and worked solution →Which early Gupta king is called Maharajadhiraja, King of Great Kings?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandragupta I extended his power by marrying a princess of which clan?Read the answer and worked solution →Who composed the Allahabad Pillar inscription praising Samudragupta?Read the answer and worked solution →Samudragupta's gold coins show him playing which instrument?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who founded the Maurya Empire around 320 BCE?

  1. Samudragupta the Great
  2. Ashoka the Great
  3. Chandragupta Maurya
  4. Bindusara Amitraghata
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Correct answer: C. Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya defeated the Nanda dynasty and founded the empire in the early 320s BCE.

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Which city was the capital of the Mauryan Empire?

  1. Tosali
  2. Pataliputra
  3. Taxila
  4. Ujjain
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Correct answer: B. Pataliputra

Pataliputra, in Magadha, was the imperial capital of the Mauryas.

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Which Greek ambassador wrote the book Indika about the Mauryan court?

  1. Faxian
  2. Harisena
  3. Megasthenes
  4. Xuanzang
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Correct answer: C. Megasthenes

Megasthenes was sent to Chandragupta's court and wrote Indika, a major record of Mauryan India.

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