Geography
The geographic protection from invaders in india
The Himalayan mountains
Sacred river in Hinduism
The Ganges river
A similar religion to Buddhism
Hinduism
Made empire more easier to govern by
Splitting it into provinces
Most powerful emperor
Chandragupta II
The sacred river
Ganges River
The sacred text
Vedas
Founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
The very north of this empire
Modern day Afghanistan
Main religion during empire
Hinduism
Length of Indus River
2,000 miles long
The sacred text language
Sanskrit
Time it took for enlightenment under the tree
40 days
The cultural differences
Scholars during this period made big advancements in this
Mathematics, like close approximation to pi, advances in trigonometry, use of negative numbers, etc.
Seasonal wind name
Monsoons
Karma
Sum of ones good/bad actions
Pillars of Buddhism
4 noble truths and the eight fold path
The one who seized control of the empire
Ashoka
Inspiration of Gupta structures and architecture
Buddhism and Hinduism
The regions connected to India through trade
East Africa, Arabia, Persia, Southeast Asia including Indonesia and the Philippines, and then China in the east.
Dharma
Duty/ responsibility of your caste
What Buddhism refuses
The caste system
Emperors being weak after Ashoka, Hindu priests once again reimposed the caste system as the Mauryan Empire gradually shrunk. And then, the last of the Mauryan leaders were killed
Elevated topics/objects during reign of most powerful leader
culture, art, mathematics, philosophy, religion, and astronomy