Maurya Empire
Similarities
• Ashoka’s beliefs centralized
the key teachings of
Buddhism which influenced
the law of the country.
• These laws angered many of
the people in the country as
they were paying high
amounts of taxations which
was used to provide the
monks a better life.
• His influence helped to
increase trade and
commerce in the country.
Gupta Empire
• By employing a careful
• Under Chandragupta’s rule
bureaucratic system both
empires were able to literature, music and art
maintain security and flourished. From his era
political unity across large many great poets have
parts of Asia. been discovered.
• Both rulers of these • He was able to keep peace
empires bound together a and prosperity within the
previously fractured citizens of the country.
• He did not centralize any
regions of the Indian
Subcontnent through their beliefs of him in the laws
centralized authority. which helped to keep
peace within the groups of
different religion.