Why was India unable to maintain a unified empire in the first millennium BCE, and how was the Mauryan Empire temporarily able to overcome the tendencies toward disunity? What was the role of the Greeks under Alexander in the Mauryan ascendancy?

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a. Holy Roman Empire b. Spain c. England d. Denmark

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