The Maurya Empire emerged through the Persian conquest by the invasion of India led by Darius around 520 B.C.E. The Achaemenid Empire attained and conquered several sections of northwestern India. Two centuries after the conquering of northwester India, the empire was overpowered by the overwhelming Alexander of Macedon in 327 B.C.E. After his attainment of the empire, he soon abandons it leaving the empire to go on without a government.
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