The First Empires

A series of rulers all from the same family

• A Legacy

• A Lesion

• A dynasty

• The Aryans

Believed by many historians to be the greatest king of the Mauryan Dynasty

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Ashoka

• Alexander the Great

• Bindusara

Who founded the Mauryan Empire?

• Asoka

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Alexander the Great

• Kalidasa

Capital city of the Mauryan Dynasty

• Kalinga

• Taxila

• Ujjain

• Pataliputra

Mark ALL that kept Chandragupta Maurya on the throne

• Good communication system

• Spy system

• Social Media

• Stong army

A state containing several countries or territories is called a(n)

• empire

• region

• city-state

• allay

The first emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty was...

• Chandragupta
• Ashoka
• Brihadratha

• Dhana Nanda

Chandragupta's grandson who succeeded him to the throne was named...

• Ashoka
• Chandragupta 2
• Nanda
• Kautilya

Ashoka became the first king who gave up war even after winning the great battle of_______.

• Kalinga
• Panipat

• Haldighati

• Chausa

Ashoka improved communication throughout the empire by______________.

• Constructing roads and rest houses
• Inventing the first telephone
• Morse code
• New smoke signal technique