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How far did the Mauryans facilitate the diffusion of the material culture of the Gangetic plains? Explain.
The material culture of the Gangetic plains — iron technology, Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW), silver punch-marked coinage, the Brahmi and Kharoshthi scripts, burnt-brick/ring-well construction, and fortified urban forms — had matured in Magadha well before the Mauryas. The Mauryan achievement was to carry this package outward, through conquest, administration, and commerce, into regions that…
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- What Travelled: The Gangetic Material Package
- Administrative Integration as a Diffusion Node Network
- Trade Routes, Coinage, and Military Campaigns
- Script and Edicts as Vehicles of Literacy
- The Paradox: New Knowledge in the Outlying Areas
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