If I'm not mistaken, it was used as a neutral zone. Basically splitting hostiles from non-hostiles. It was also being used as a safe haven for the poor who couldn't pay taxes.
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The correct answer is expanded into southern India to control trade routes
Explanation: Chandragupta had a true empire that stretched from the Indus to the Ganges, dominated the delta of these two rivers, and was supported by a mighty army. The administrative organization seems to have been well undertaken, overseen by imperial inspectors, and facilitated by the good state of the roads which the sovereign had taken great care of. It was no longer a question for Seleucus to despise the alliance of such a powerful monarch: he left his territories beyond the Indus and bestowed on her the hand of a Greek princess. From that moment on, India entered the orbit of the great empires of time; its capital, situated in Pataliputra or Magadha, was for many decades the center of a Greek embassy which Ambassador Magastenio illustrated, and whose information is precious, though secondhand.
Well a direct democracy is like the practice of the Ancient Greeks were every single person had a say in the matter. In the United States we choose representatives to speak for us therefore, technically making us a republic.
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They mostly worked and farmers in the fields growing crops
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