Practice question · Put in order
Order the arc of ancient South Asian states.
- The Gupta period opens India’s "classical" age
- Ashoka conquers Kalinga and then renounces conquest
- The Mauryan Empire fragments into competing kingdoms
- Monsoon-driven Indian Ocean trade booms with Rome
- Chandragupta Maurya founds the first subcontinental empire
Hints
- Unification comes before fragmentation.
- The great cultural flowering follows the political peak, not precedes it.
Show the answer
- Chandragupta Maurya founds the first subcontinental empire
- Ashoka conquers Kalinga and then renounces conquest
- The Mauryan Empire fragments into competing kingdoms
- Monsoon-driven Indian Ocean trade booms with Rome
- The Gupta period opens India’s "classical" age
Why
Unification, conscience, fragmentation, wealth, and cultural flowering, and notice that the richest cultural age comes after the great political unity has broken, not during it.
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