ASHOKA THE GREAT

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ASHOKA THE GREAT The date of Asoka’s birth is not known, and not many historians are brave enough to hazard a guess. What is known is that he was the grandson of Chandragupta who founded the Maurya dynasty in approximately 324 B. C. (not long after Alexander left India) and the son of Bindusara, the…

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT 356-323 B. C. Alexander III, king of Macedonia, was born in 356 B. C. at Pella in Macedonia. He died thirty-three years later (13 June 323) in Persia and is known to history as Alexander the Great. As a teenager his tutor was Aristotle who imbued him with a love of Greek…