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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 (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

Most of modern India, plus a good bit of what is now Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma.
Ashoka

10 posted on 06/01/2016 7:28:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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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 (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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