WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ashoka the Great was the son of Bindusara and the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya. He was the greatest of the Maurya emperors. He was able to expand the Indian empire to rule over almost the entire Indian subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Maurya Empire, or the Mauryan Empire, was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power on the Indian subcontinent based in Magadha, having been founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, and existing in loose-knit fashion until 185 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, grandson of its founder Chandragupta and son of the second emperor, Bindusara.