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2015 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama
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900 BCE
Brahmanism
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500 BCE
Hindiusm
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268 BCE
Emperor Asoka
Ashoka was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the modern state of Bangladesh in the east -
185 BCE
Mauryan Empire
in ancient India, a state centred at Pataliputra (later Patna) near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga) rivers. It lasted from about 321 to 185 bce