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Indian trade.  people in china, west Asia, Africa, and Europe and spend most of there time farming.  in northern china people farmed mostly wheat and chine farmed rice.  some traders went south t india and some went along the northern silk road through Turkestan and Uzbekistan.  all around the world was a time of  unification.  definition,  silk road.  a road that's consists of several different branches that follow a path of oasis town around the edges of foreboding deserts and harsh mountain ranges.  silk road.  trade route around the Asia, Mediterranean Europe, area and Asia.  India traded fabrics, spices and dyes. 

military conquest.  historian considered these conquers of this time the bloodiest chapter of human history.  there was a lot of good rulers during this time.  500b.c the ascetic prince Mahavira founds Jainism in northern India.  Mauryan armies were made up of four parts the chariot, elephant, infantry and archers.  the cholo dynasty dominated the southern part.  the military conquest.  the Himalayan mountains split India front the rest of Asia leaving many of the Indian kingdoms open for battle for dominance.  as the military advanced, so did many other things, such as elephants and bamboo bows.  they mad advances in Armour also.  Alexander the great planned to take over india.  so he could get to the great outer sea.  the deserts fo India were controlled by highly skilled mounted warriors called raj put's.  the Shijiazhuang dynasty were the first to use catapults.  the bow was the main and most deadly weapon for the Indian military.  Mauryan had 600k infantry men.  the Mauryan was first empire to unite all fo india.  the Mauryan empire was made up of chariots elephants and infantry.  archers largest force. 

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