Conquest Set The Stage For The Emergence Of The Mauryan Empire

Empires were different in the way they exerted power because they could affect places outside their empire in a positive or negative way. The Persians exerted their power by thinking they were superior to all other people at that time and when they heard a place had riches they would go plunder it. In document 1 it describes that since they thought they were superior they had the right to go plunder places with luxury.

Persia and Greece were beautiful and prosperous empires and where the most influential of their time. In this essay I will talk about the two main empires’ political structures and their economy and I will also state similarities and differences between the two empires. The two empires’ political structures might have varied greatly but their economies were very similar. Even though they had differences and had major battles they were still the ideal empires of their time.

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When Alexander conquered Persia he moved past the land they owned into unknown land conquering it all the way to India. (Doc A) He conquered the eastern bank of the Hydaspes River in India, fighting an army with men riding elephants. (Doc B) Alexander also conquered the island of Tyre,and it wasn’t a part of the mainland cities. (Doc C)

Mauryan Empire Quiz 1. Where was the Mauryan Empire located? 2. Who was the first ruler? 3.

Alexander first started his conquest to rule the world by invading the Persian empire. But while his army where invading the Persian empire, he was still at war with Thrace. Some of the Greek cities rebelled which took alexander back down south. Then he captured the city of Thebes and demolished it as a warning to the other Greek cities if they tried to resist his rules he would destroy there city. One year later in 333B.C alexander yet again went south from Cilicia to Syria, after conquering the Persians at the river Granicus. Whilst he defeated Darius III at Issus. Then he went to Egypt where they accepted him as their liberator through the Persian rule. Alexander conquered north through Syria and Mesopotamia and defeating another Darius at Gaugamela 2 years later in 331B.C. Darius ran away and then was killed by his own men. Alexander had become the leader of the Persian empire. Still with the dream to conquer the world he continued into Indus river valley which is now call Afghanistan and reached Punjab in 326B.C, where sadly his men convinced him that they had reached the end, the end of the world. Alexander with his head held low turned back for Macedonia. Where his soldiers wanted to see there wives and children. This all took 11 years with an army of 50,000 Greeks and Macedonians. As Alexander scored cities from his defeats he would then change the names of the cities. He named one city Bucephala after his horse

The threat of the Persian Empire's expansion into Greece and the imminent possibility that

That wasn’t enough for King Alexander; he wanted to reach the “ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea”. With this, he set off to invade India in 326 B.C. but was forced to turn around at the expense of his troops. Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C.; in years following his death many civil wars broke out and tore apart his empire.

The Mauryan Empire was famous for conquering almost all of the Indian subcontinent. In 322 B.C.E, Chandragupta Maurya conquered the Nanda Empire and killed Dhana Nanda. He rapidly expanded his empire westwards and northwards to India, and by 316 b.c.e his empire fully occupied Northwestern India by defeated and conquered the governors left by Alexander the Great, and to he expanded his empire to Tajikistan, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan. Afghanistan in the West, Bengal in the East, the Deccan plateau in the South and Kashmir in the North. The empire’s second king Bindusara, expanded into the central and southern regions of India, with the exception of the Kingdom of Kalinga and a small portion of tribal and forested land that was

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There are many reasons in which the Persian empire is considered one of the greatest civilizations ever in human history and this can mostly be attributed to the stupendous leadership of the one and only Cyrus the great. One of the best kings that the world has ever seen and was the most dominant man in his era. He was brilliant and extremely powerful as he was smart and strong enough to conquer almost every single land within his area and put them all together into one persian empire. The legacy that Cyrus left behind him was one that every king after him tried to follow. For example, emperor Darius I still continued the expansion of the persian empire and reigned control over it as well. After Cyrus died there was a time in which there was nothing but trash rulers and then Darius I came into power. As I stated earlier Darius wanted to follow in the steps of Cyrus and be even greater than him so Darius builded on what Cyrus achieved and split the persian empire into multiple provinces to control the government a little easier. Another thing that made persia so successful was the fact that they tolerated non-Persian folks to live in their empire. There were many different types of people all across persia and the government did not force anything upon these non-Persian residents and let them live their lives how they had before arriving and they only had to pay taxes. Due to this the

How many times have we heard the saying, “everything happens for a reason”? I’m pretty sure if you’re able to read this blog, you’ve heard it too many times already.

Although Central Asia may be a forgotten area of the globe, the region exists to be one the most culturally rich areas of the world. Being at the cross roads of empires and trade routes since the beginning of civilization, Central Asia has consistently been influenced by cultures either through rule or simple interactions. Regional influence in Central Asia goes all the way back to 600 B.C. where the Persian Empire had set up their kingdom with provinces in Central Asia.1 200 years later in 400 B.C., emperor Alexander the Great brings in a cultural tsunami carrying heavy Greek influence. Ultimately under the rule of Alexander the Great, the region conformed to the ways of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

The foundations of an ancient empire are shaped by many characteristics originating in a civilization’s social, philosophical, and theological values. Collectively these will bring about an empire that has aspects which will classify them in distinctive ways. The aspects that will be compared between Persia and Rome are the motives for expansion, methods of expansion, the administration, the impact on those conquered and the original empire, and the reasons for the decline of each empire. When combined, these aspects predispose the individual overall shape of ancient Rome and Persia. Both empires began with conquering larger rulers and creating vast empires which had never been seen

For the next few years he would lay siege and conquer many cities and countries and gains control of a vast majority of Asia Minor and Egypt. After Alexander had conquered Babylon he set his sights on Persia. He took Susa, one of the capitals and Persepolis the ceremonial capital. Alexander had set his sights on taking Darius III and pursed him into Media then Parthia. In the year 330BC, Darius was taken prisoner by the Bactrian Satrap Bessus who had Darius stabbed as Alexander approached, He declared himself the new king under the name of Artaxerxes V. Alexander gave Darius a proper burial next to his Achaemenid ancestors and proclaims himself the rightful successor. Though Bessus proclaims himself as King of the Empire, he had no relations to anyone of the royal family, therefore it is generally accepted that the death of Darius the III marked the end of Achaemenid Empire. Much of the remaining Empire falls to Alexander or gains independence for themselves. Alexander succeeded in conquering the Achaemenid Empire because of his great tactical prowess on the battlefield making him and his army a formidable enemy for the generals of the Empire. He conquers many cities and state swiftly, many were willing to submit after seeing what they had done to other armies. In conquering the cities he began to merge Greek language, Greek Culture and Greek population with these conquered areas making the original culture of Persia decline.