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... Indian building . The new creed spread over India . A later Maurya king , Ashoka11 ( -III ) , con- quered most of India and made Buddhism his state religion . Before the Mauryas , most Indian religious structures had been unpretentious ...
... Indian building . The new creed spread over India . A later Maurya king , Ashoka11 ( -III ) , con- quered most of India and made Buddhism his state religion . Before the Mauryas , most Indian religious structures had been unpretentious ...
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... India , even though not one joist or lath from these buildings has come down from ancient times . Hinduism revived in -II . For several centuries Hindus and Buddhists struggled for control with almost the zeal and cruelty of the ...
... India , even though not one joist or lath from these buildings has come down from ancient times . Hinduism revived in -II . For several centuries Hindus and Buddhists struggled for control with almost the zeal and cruelty of the ...
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... India were by the mountains and deserts west of India . Hence it is no surprise that Chinese civiliza- tion arose later than the civilizations of the Near and Middle East . Once it had arisen , however , there was continuous traf- fic ...
... India were by the mountains and deserts west of India . Hence it is no surprise that Chinese civiliza- tion arose later than the civilizations of the Near and Middle East . Once it had arisen , however , there was continuous traf- fic ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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