c. 340–297 BCE
Founder of the Maurya Empire, India's first great unified state.
Chandragupta Maurya (c. 340–297 BCE) endures among the great of South Asia. Founder of the Maurya Empire, India's first great unified state.
Across the classical age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.
Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
Submitted with honor.
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