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India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Indo-Shunga Dynasty - A Brief History

In 184 b c, the last moria emperor was assassinated and overthrown by his military general named pushamitra shungand this is a common thing. It's like what happened in the roman empire. Where as the the empire de stabilizes, comes under attack, generals have to assert more and more power until eventually they just take the liberty of killing the emperor and taking the throne for themselves. So pushamitro shunga established the shunga dynasty, which was able to hold on to power in the east, but lost control of the western indian lands,. leading to a period of feuding states. And importantly, after the end of the moria

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