If We Could Go Back In Time - The Maurya Empire. Wednesday Edition

Changing the arc of history. Series 23 #3

Ashoka Maurya inherited one of the largest empires in the ancient world and spent the first years of his reign expanding it by force. In 261 BCE, he sent his army into the Kalinga kingdom, a coastal state in eastern India that had resisted Maurya control, and watched roughly 100,000 people die. What followed was one of the most documented personal trans…