And they say different things
A period with two names
Called the time after the Mauryas, it sounds like a gap between real history.
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The Age of Reorganisation · Class 7 Social Science · Exploring Society
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Killed by his own general
How the line finished
Of Ashoka successors remarkably little is known.
The speed is the startling part
Barely fifty years
Only about half a century separates Ashoka from the collapse.
How to make power visible
Two answers, one question
Every ruler in this age had to show that he was powerful.
Small beside what it replaced
The house the general founded
Pushyamitra Shunga, who ended the Maurya line, founded a dynasty over parts of north and central India.
And then gone in a century
Small, but safe
He kept his territory clear of invaders, and ended on friendly terms with the Greeks after fighting them first.
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1
Why the empire broke, and what reorganisation means
The last Maurya emperor was killed about 185 BCE by his own commander-in-chief, barely fifty years after Ashoka. Former tributary kingdoms became independent states, competing by war and by marriage. Art and writing flou…
- The last Maurya emperor was killed about 185 BCE by his commander-in-chief, Pushyamitra Shunga.
- That was only about half a century after Ashoka.
- Many of the new kingdoms had been tributaries under Maurya overlordship.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
The Shungas and the Satavahanas
The Shungas ruled north and central India and declared kingship by the ashvamedha, where a loose horse marked out territory. The Satavahanas ruled the Deccan on farming and sea trade. They put ships on their coins and na…
- Pushyamitra Shunga founded a dynasty ruling parts of north and central India.
- It was smaller than the Maurya empire but he kept invaders out, and it lasted about a century.
- In the ashvamedha a loose horse claimed any land it crossed unchallenged.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Kharavela of the Chedis, and the three crowned kings
Kalinga rose again under the Chedis, and Kharavela had his reign inscribed year by year, boasting of respecting every sect. In the south the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas stayed independent through the imperial age. Poets g…
- After the Mauryas, Kalinga rose again under the Chedi dynasty.
- Kharavela followed Jain teaching and was called bhikshu-raja, monk-king.
- The Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves near Bhubaneswar are rock-cut architecture.
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4
The invaders who became Indian, and two schools of art
Indo-Greeks, Shakas and Kushanas entered through the weakened northwest and were absorbed. Their own coins carry Indian deities, and Kanishka struck the Buddha and Shiva alike. Gandhara worked grey schist, Mathura red sa…
- Satraps Alexander left behind became independent rulers called the Indo-Greeks.
- After Maurya power went, the northwest made a soft target for invasion.
- The invaders arrived as conquerors and were heavily influenced by local culture.
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Preferred by some scholars over the time after the Mauryas, as a name for this period, is the Age of
Beginner
A Empires
B Invasions
C Silence
D Reorganisation
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Reorganisation
It says what was going on.
Explaining why the time after the Mauryas is a poor name for the period is that it describes what had
Advanced
A never begun in the first place
B stopped rather than what went on
C happened only in the south
D been written down anywhere
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stopped rather than what went on
A gap between real history.
The Maurya line did not end at the hands of a foreign invader but of somebody who already served the emperor. Killing the last Maurya emperor about 185 BCE was his own
Intermediate
A commander-in-chief
B chief minister
C eldest son
D tributary king
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commander-in-chief
Pushyamitra Shunga.
Naming the man who ended the Maurya line gives
Intermediate
A Kharavela the monk-king
B Kanishka the Kushana
C Karikala of the Cholas
D Pushyamitra Shunga
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Pushyamitra Shunga
He founded a dynasty of his own.
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