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The founder of the Maurya empire was _______.
The Maurya Empire
was a geographically-extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and
founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated the Indian subcontinent between
322 and 187 BCE.
In the wake of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bce, Chandragupta (orChandragupta Maurya), founder of the Mauryan dynasty, carved out the majority of an empire that encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent, except for the Tamil-speaking south.