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*Anthropologist and Bioarcheologist [[Professor Ian Barnes]] created Mauryan Empire Map : [https://archive.org/details/historyatlasofas00ianb/page/43/mode/1up]
*Anthropologist and Bioarcheologist [[Professor Ian Barnes]] created Mauryan Empire Map : [https://archive.org/details/historyatlasofas00ianb/page/43/mode/1up]


== Wars Involving the Mauryan Empire ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! style="background:orange;"|<span style="color: white;">Conflict</span>
! style="background:orange;"|<span style="color: white;">Mauryan Emperor</span>
! style="background:orange;"|<span style="color: white;">Opponent</span>
! style="background:orange;width: 320px;"|<span style="color:white;">Outcome</span>
|-
| '''Conquest of Magadha'''<br>(322 BCE - 320 BCE)
| [[Chandragupta Maurya]]
| [[Dhana Nanda]] of [[Nanda Empire]]
| '''Mauryan Victory'''
* Chandragupta establishes the Mauryan Empire replacing Nandas.
*He married the princes of the Nanda's [[Durdhara]]
|-
| '''Seleucid-Maurya War'''<br>(305 BCE - 303 BCE)
| [[Bindusara]]
| [[Seleucid Empire]]
| '''Mauryan Victory'''
*Treaty of the Indus.{{sfn|Kosmin|2014|p=33–34}}
* Seleucid Empire's eastern satrapies ceded to Mauryan Empire
* Seleucus gives the hand of his daughter to Chandragupta, founding a dynastic alliance
* Chandragupta gives 500 [[war elephants]] to Seleucus
* Establishment of [[Megasthenes|diplomatic relations]]
* Conquest of the Persian territories such as [[Aria (region)]] [[Arachosia]], [[Gedrosia]] and [[Paropamisadae]] by the Mauryans <ref>[[Strabo]], ''Geography'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/15B*.html#2.9 xv.2.9]</ref> {{sfn|Kosmin|2014|p=33–34}}<ref name="Smith1920">{{citation|last=Smith|first=Vincent Arthur|title=The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2gxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104|year=1920|publisher=Clarendon Press|pages=104–106}}</ref>
|-
| '''Conquest of Kalinga'''<br>(265 BCE - 261 BCE)
| [[Ashoka the Great]]
| [[Kalinga Kingdom]]
| '''Mauryan Victory'''
* Kalinga conquered by the Emperor Ashoka.
* 150,000 people died on the Kalinga side and an almost equal number of Ashoka's army. Total death count approx 3 lakh.
* Ashoka elder brother son inspire Ashoka to became Buddhist, to devote the rest of his life to ahimsa (non-violence).
* Ashoka changes hispolicy of Diga-Vijaya (conquest of all four direction) to Dhamma-Vijaya (victory through Dharma).
|}
==Founding Emperors==
==Founding Emperors==
===Chandragupta Maurya===
===Chandragupta Maurya===
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