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After the Holocaust, the world vowed to never again permit the crime of genocide. In the many decades since, genocide and mass violence have played out again, and again.
In the wake of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, Chandragupta (or Chandragupta Maurya), founder of the Mauryan dynasty, carved out the majority of an empire that encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent, except for the Tamil-speaking south. The Mauryan empire was an efficient and highly organized autocracy with a standing army and civil service. That bureaucracy and its operation were the model for the Artha-shastra (“The Science of Material Gain”), a work of political economy similar in tone and scope to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince.
Chandragupta
Chandragupta
Chandragupta, from an Indian postage stamp.
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Much is known of the reign of the Buddhist Mauryan emperor Ashoka (reigned c. 265–238 BCE or c. 273–232 BCE) from the edicts inscribed on exquisitely executed stone pillars that he had erected throughout his realm. Those edicts constitute some of the oldest deciphered original texts of India. Ashoka campaigned little to expand the realm; rather, his conquest consisted of sending many Buddhist emissaries throughout Asia and commissioning some of the finest works of ancient Indian art.
Ashokan pillar
Ashokan pillar
Inscription on Ashokan pillar, Lauriya Nandangarh, Bihar state, India.
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After Ashoka’s death the empire shrank because of invasions, defections by southern princes, and quarrels over ascension. The last ruler, Brihadratha, was killed in 185 BCE by his Brahman commander in chief, Pushyamitra, who then founded the Shunga dynasty, which ruled in central India for about a century.
May 31, 1961 is when south africa became independent
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The Ilkhanate (or Ilqanate, 1260-1335 CE) was that part of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) which mostly covered what is today Iran and parts of Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Established by the Mongol general Hulegu (d.
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The correct answer is option <u><em>B) religious differences.</em></u><u><em>
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Although there were religious differences between the intervening countries, there were both in opposing and allied countries, and the religious aspect did not play an important role as cause of the war.
The powers of the time competed for the control of the colonies of Africa, Asia and America mainly with the desire to get raw materials in the height of the Industrial Revolution.
In order to obtain more and more colonies, deploy overseas trade, and defend themselves against other powers, some European nations had developed an army and very powerful armies.
Nationalisms were booming at that time and many mutual protection agreements had been established between different countries in the face of foreign attacks on one of them.
There were ethnic groups in the Austro-Hungarian Empire that considered themselves as nations, such as the Italians, the Serbs and the Magyars.
The beginning of the war was born from a specific event that unleashed declarations of war between countries that forced to enter their successive military allies.
