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Post-Mauryan Period: Urban Centres, Science and Trade

Read this article to learn about the Post-Mauryan Period: Urban Centres, Science, Trade and Commerce during Post-Mauryan Period ! Urban Centers in Post-Mauryan Period: The flourishing trade and crafts and growing use of money was an incentive to the growth of new towns. Vaishali, Pataliputra, Varanasi, Kausambi, Sravasti, Hastinapur, Mathura, Indraprastha etc. were some of the prosperous towns of North [...]

By |2015-08-08T16:41:17+05:30September 25, 2013|History of India|Comments Off on Post-Mauryan Period: Urban Centres, Science and Trade

The History of the Post-Mauryan Period of India

Contact With Outside World: The most important political developments of the Post-Maurya period was the onslaught of for­eigners from the north-west. The first among them were the Bactrian Greeks, known in earlier Indian literature as Yavanas; the word was derived from the Old Persian from Yauna, signifying originally Ionian Greeks but later all people of Greek nationality. Image Source: [...]

By |2015-08-08T17:40:26+05:30September 20, 2013|Politics|Comments Off on The History of the Post-Mauryan Period of India
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