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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.
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