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India-Lesson 5-Indian Empires

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Maurya rulers payed for the roads they built by taxing people.  They took 1/4 of farmers' crops and payments from merchants and herders.

Roads make it easier to govern an empire because they connect an empire and assist in the rulers communication with people that live far away.  Rulers can more easily enforce laws throughout an empire with roads also.

About 600 years passed between the beginning of the Maurya Empire and the beginning of the Gupta Empire.

It was a very wise political move by Samudragupta to allow conquered kings to remain in power because this made kings and their subjects less likely to become his enemies.

Chandragupta I, the founder of the Gupta Empire, built his empire upon a strategy that many emperors and kings have used before: a combination of marriage and warfare.

Chandragupta I conquered some territories but also brought other lands under his rule by marrying a princess from another ruler's family.