Founder of the Maurya Empire (350–295 BCE)
He swept up the wreckage left by Alexander's death and turned it into an empire. Chandragupta Maurya took the throne in Magadha around 320 BCE, crushed the Nanda dynasty, pushed back the Greeks, and built the first state to unite most of the Indian subcontinent under one rule.
Chandragupta rose during the chaos following Alexander the Great's Indian campaign and early death in 323 BCE. He launched a war against the unpopular Nanda dynasty in Magadha on the Ganges Valley, defeated them around 322–319 BCE, and established his own line. With the counsel of his mentor Chanakya, who became his minister, he raised an army to resist the Greeks, beat them, and seized control of the eastern Indus Valley by roughly 317–312 BCE. He later expanded into parts of the western Indus Valley and possibly eastern Afghanistan through a dynastic marriage alliance with Seleucus I Nicator…
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