SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Created ruthless rules
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Built the Taj Mahal
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He took over most of India’s temples
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Found the Mauryan Empire
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chandragupta was the founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. 321–c. 297 BCE) and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination.
Detailed explanation-2: -left a large power vacuum, and Chandragupta took advantage, gathering an army and overthrowing the Nanda power in Magadha, in present-day eastern India, marking the start of the Mauryan Empire. After crowning himself king, Chandragupta took additional lands through force and by forming alliances.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was the architect of the Mauryan empire (321 B.C-185 B.C) that controlled the plains of both the Indus and the Ganga, and which stretched until the eastern and western oceans. With Pataliputra at its imperial centre, the Mauryan Empire for the first time unified most of South Asia.