THE MAURYAN EMPIRE AND ASHOKA, 200's BCE
 
 

From "Historical Atlas of India," by Charles Joppen (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907), scan by FWP, Oct. 2006; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A LARGER SCAN

Ashoka's empire, 268-233 BCE

Source: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,121169+32+111197,00.html
(downloaded March 2001)

The Mauryan Empire at its greatest extent, under Ashoka

Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/maur/hd_maur.htm
(downloaded Sept. 2006)

Ashoka's empire in its context, a map by F. Smitha

Source: http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/map14ind.htm
(downloaded Apr. 2006)

The Persian and Mauryan empires, showing their area of overlap in Afghanistan

Source: http://www.dur.ac.uk/arch.projects/charsadda/MapIndianOcean.html
(downloaded Mar. 2008)




From Burton Stein, A History of India (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998), p. 41; scan by FWP, Oct. 2006; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN

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