Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

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Gertrude the Great, Saint, 1256-1302; Mechthild of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282; Pope, Thomas Alder, 1819-1904. Publication ... in his life of St. Gertrude, that it is " perhaps ...