To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv; blam
I wonder about Ashoka’s empire — around 300 BC. What parts of India would have been populated? Most likely the Ganga-Jamuna river valley, Punjab and the coastlines. The interiors would remain non-Aryan for a long time yet and the furthest east would be Bengal.
9 posted on
06/01/2016 5:58:17 AM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Cronos
Most of modern India, plus a good bit of what is now Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma.
![Ashoka](http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/early/ashoka/joppen.jpg)
10 posted on
06/01/2016 7:28:25 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Cronos
That part ceded by Seleukus Nikator -- that was the ruler of one of the successor states after the death of Alexander the Great; I think that Ashoka's grandfather and predecessor Chandragupta Maurya was a boy when Alexander's army came through; Chandragupta was married to (among others) Seleukus Nikator's daughter, that swath of territory and the marriage cemented an alliance.
11 posted on
06/01/2016 7:36:17 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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