History Notes 9/26/16

• Persian Empire
• First long lasting world empire
• Territory
• Divided the area into satraps (provinces)
• Leaders
• Satraps were lead by governors known as satrapies
• Mauryan Empire
• This empire was in India, and compared to the Persian empire, was rather short lived
• Thanks to the Indian Religions Practiced, the Empire Had What?
• A strong cultural unity
• Chandragupta reigned from 320 to 298 BCE
• He was a freedom fighter against Alexander the Great
• He took power over part of Northern India when Alexander the Great died
• He practiced Jainism
• Megasthenes
• Wrote the most about the Mauryan Empire
• He was a Greek diplomat, who was sent by Seleucus who was the emperor of one third of Alexander's empire, who made trade deals with Chandragupta. 
• They had a lot of trading of:
• Spices
• Bronze
• Cotton (Big Seller)
• Trade and government were aided by the grand trunk road
• Ruled by diplomacy, by having territories pay taxes.
• Kautilya was one of Chandragupta's best advisers
• Is given credit for writing the Treaty on Polity
• It seems that other people were involved in its creation
• Was divided into four provinces
• This empire was far more beaurecratic than Persia, this was seen by how they had:
• Their own department of timber
• Treaty on Polity
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• What do All Indian Religions Share?
• Dharma
• Samsara
• Karma