Weird to use the current national emblem here, the Lion Capital is what it’s based off of but the two are not the same, especially with the devnagri script being used which wouldn’t exist for centuries still. They also did not have tributaries in Ceylon, nor in southeastern Bangladesh. The tributaries in the east would mostly been along the Brahmaputra.
DharmicCosmosO on
Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, the vast Mauryan Empire, ranging from the Oxus valley to the Kaveri delt, covered an area of around 5,000,000 square kilometers at its peak. This made it the largest empire in the Indian subcontinent and one of the world’s largest empires at the time
Silent_Abrocoma508 on
There’s a site called Umrar Actual Ancient city of Partliputra or Mordern day patna set to be more then 2500-3000years old in Magadha or Mordern day Bihar.
hampsten on
Among the largest countries (area in excess of 2 million sqkm) India has by a long distance the oldest socio-politically united state that encompasses at least 90% of its current land area.
India has had a single political entity that looks broadly like its current borders 2300 years ago – essentially all 3.3 million [sq.km](http://sq.km) of it. In fact, the current nation state derives its cohesion and legitimacy from this basis of this original construct.
China had its first (Qin) dynasty around the same time, but that was just a small sliver on their eastern seaboard. Their current borders were not established until the late Qing dynasty in the 18th century. Iran (#17 in land area) would be the nearest in size in terms of a modern country whose extent was politically united over 2200 years ago, followed by Egypt.
m2social on
Isn’t it too far south? Wiki disagrees with some of the borders here tbh
Wouldn’t Patala be located on the Indus river? Also while I appreciate the effort, I think this shows the maximum extent of the empire rather than the realistic extent in my opinion. And where did you find the info regarding the provinces of the Mauryan Empire?
Yamama77 on
Chandragupta is not known much to the west.
But he fought seleucus who was basically the strongest of the diadochi (Alexander’s generals) and probably won.
The agreement had seleucus give one of his daughter’s for 500 war elephants which were used to defeat the antigonids in ipsus by blocking a probably battle ending rear charge from antigonuses son who beat back seleucus cavalry.
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Weird to use the current national emblem here, the Lion Capital is what it’s based off of but the two are not the same, especially with the devnagri script being used which wouldn’t exist for centuries still. They also did not have tributaries in Ceylon, nor in southeastern Bangladesh. The tributaries in the east would mostly been along the Brahmaputra.
Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, the vast Mauryan Empire, ranging from the Oxus valley to the Kaveri delt, covered an area of around 5,000,000 square kilometers at its peak. This made it the largest empire in the Indian subcontinent and one of the world’s largest empires at the time
There’s a site called Umrar Actual Ancient city of Partliputra or Mordern day patna set to be more then 2500-3000years old in Magadha or Mordern day Bihar.
Among the largest countries (area in excess of 2 million sqkm) India has by a long distance the oldest socio-politically united state that encompasses at least 90% of its current land area.
India has had a single political entity that looks broadly like its current borders 2300 years ago – essentially all 3.3 million [sq.km](http://sq.km) of it. In fact, the current nation state derives its cohesion and legitimacy from this basis of this original construct.
China had its first (Qin) dynasty around the same time, but that was just a small sliver on their eastern seaboard. Their current borders were not established until the late Qing dynasty in the 18th century. Iran (#17 in land area) would be the nearest in size in terms of a modern country whose extent was politically united over 2200 years ago, followed by Egypt.
Isn’t it too far south? Wiki disagrees with some of the borders here tbh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire
https://edurev.in/t/242787/The-Mauryan-Empire-I
There’s a map in it, 2/3rds in
‘Piyadassi’ doesn’t require your exaggerations
Wouldn’t Patala be located on the Indus river? Also while I appreciate the effort, I think this shows the maximum extent of the empire rather than the realistic extent in my opinion. And where did you find the info regarding the provinces of the Mauryan Empire?
Chandragupta is not known much to the west.
But he fought seleucus who was basically the strongest of the diadochi (Alexander’s generals) and probably won.
The agreement had seleucus give one of his daughter’s for 500 war elephants which were used to defeat the antigonids in ipsus by blocking a probably battle ending rear charge from antigonuses son who beat back seleucus cavalry.
I don’t much more about him.
May I ask what software you used ?
Pundravardhana should have been shown.