The Grand Trunk Road: India's Ancient Highway of Empires — Fexingo History

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The Grand Trunk Road: India's Ancient Highway of Empires — Fexingo History

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Before the Silk Road, there was the Grand Trunk Road — a 2,400-kilometer artery connecting the Bay of Bengal to the Khyber Pass. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace its origins under Chandragupta Maurya and his adviser Chanakya, whose Arthashastra prescribed every detail from road widths to tree plantings. They explore how Ashoka's edicts lined the route with rest houses and wells, how the road enabled Mauryan control from Pataliputra to Taxila, and how later rulers like Sher Shah Suri expanded it. Along the way, they discuss the logistics of moving armies and goods, the role of the road in spreading Buddhism into Central Asia, and the surprising continuity that made this ancient highway a UNESCO-recognized route still in use today. This episode is fresh, focusing not on the Silk Road itself but on the land route that fed into it from the east — a crucial link often overlooked in standard Silk Road histories.

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