{"slug": "mauryan-empire", "label": "Mauryan empire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauryan_empire", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-320, -194], "span_label": ["321 BCE", "195 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buddhism", "label": "Buddhism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ashoka", "label": "Ashoka", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chandragupta-maurya", "label": "Chandragupta Maurya", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "magadha-mahajanapada", "label": "Magadha (Mahajanapada)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -320, "year_label": "321 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire, establishes himself as the king of Magadha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359962346#India", "title": "321 BC", "revid": 1359962346, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -319, "year_label": "320 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Bindusara, the heir to the throne of the Mauryan Empire, is born. (d. 272 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1166431272#Births", "title": "320 BC", "revid": 1166431272, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -271, "year_label": "272 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Bindusara, emperor of the Mauryan Empire (b. c. 320 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172942#Deaths", "title": "272 BC", "revid": 1354172942, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -270, "year_label": "271 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Mauryan empire annexes the southern kingdoms till the realms of the three crowned kings of Chola, Chera and Pandya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370482485#India", "title": "271 BC", "revid": 1370482485, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -260, "year_label": "261 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mauryan Emperor Ashoka wages a war against the independent kingdom of Kalinga, culminating in the Battle of the Dhauli Hills. In the aftermath, Kalinga is annexed into the Mauryan Empire, but the brutality of the war is believed to have led to Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism, as described in his many Edicts of Ashoka.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278727971#India", "title": "261 BC", "revid": 1278727971, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -194, "year_label": "195 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Chang'an, the capital of China, is thought to become the largest city in the world at this time, taking over from Pataliputra, the capital of the Mauryan empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115647#China", "title": "195 BC", "revid": 1300115647, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}]}