Lesson 5 Flashcards
1
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Chandragupta Maurya
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United India into the first great Indian Empire. He became king around 325 B.C.
2
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Asoka
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Chandragupta’s grandson who became king in 269 B.C. He earned a reputation for cruelty but changed after seeing the killing and death
3
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Chandra Gupta I
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United India after 500 years of fighting in India he untied them into the Gupta Empire
4
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Kalidasa
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The greatest poet in Chandra Gupta II’s court and one of India’s greatest writers
5
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The Wheel of Law
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The single most important symbol of Buddhism, denoting the Buddha’s First Sermon in the forest at Sarnath, where he set Buddhist Law (dharma) in motion
