Chanakya's student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire in India, made use of assassinations, spies and secret agents, which are described in Chanakya's Arthasastra.

Political philosophy originates in Ancient India with the Hindu text Manusmṛti, or Laws of Manu and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

Many cite Sun Tzu's The Art of War ( 6th century BC ), Thucydides ' History of the Peloponnesian War ( 5th century BC ), Chanakya's Arthashastra ( 4th century BC ), as the inspiration for realist theory, with Hobbes ' Leviathan and Machiavelli's The Prince providing further elaboration.

Chanakya's original intentions were to train a guerilla army under Chandragupta's command.

Rakshasa accepted Chanakya's reasoning, and Chandragupta Maurya was legitimately installed as the new King of Magadha.

Some other famous works are Chanakya's Arthashastra and Vatsyayana's Kamasutra.

Some other famous works are Chanakya's Arthashastra and Vatsyayana's Kamasutra.

Some ancient sources such as Laws of Manu VIII and Chanakya's Arthashastra have rules for lawsuits between two or more sreni and some sources make reference to a government official ( Bhandagarika ) who worked as an arbitrator for disputes amongst sreni from at least the 6th century BC onwards.

Several geological factors have played a vital role in the formation and existence of these subterranean water bodies.

Nonetheless, immigrants, Arabic-speaking or otherwise, played a significant role, along with Islam, in the formation and early evolution of these states.

Collective traumas have been shown to play a key role in group identity formation ( see: Law of Common Fate ).

One of the most notable characteristics of New England ( or British )- heritage Congregationalism has been its consistent leadership role in the formation of " unions " with other churches.

Increased neural activity at spines increases their size and conduction which is thought to play a role in learning and memory formation.

The regions of the Diencephalon have shown brain activation when a remote memory is being recovered and the Occipital lobe, Ventral Temporal lobe, and Fusiform gyrus all play a role in memory formation.

Dark matter plays a central role in state-of-the-art modeling of structure formation and galaxy evolution, and has measurable effects on the anisotropies observed in the cosmic microwave background.

Because of its magnitude, scientists formerly speculated that the gases released during the formation of the Deccan Traps played a role in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( also known as the K-Pg extinction ), which included the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

The EC-hippocampus system plays an important role in autobiographical / declarative / episodic memories and in particular spatial memories including memory formation, memory consolidation, and memory optimization in sleep.

One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism, idealism, and historicism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions ; empiricists may argue however that traditions ( or customs ) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.

Although the formation was orgnanized but East Pakistan did not took role in 1947 war and no pressure was applied in Eastern borders.

Since independence, Fiji has been a leader in the South Pacific region, and has played a leading role in the formation of the South Pacific Forum.

General Jean Mordacq intended to rebuild the Foreign Legion as a larger military formation, doing away with the legion's traditional role as a solely infantry formation.

There was little or no violence, but the new Catholic Center Party won a fourth of the seats in the Reichstag ( Imperial Parliament ), and its middle position on most issues allowed it to play a decisive role in the formation of majorities.

Peace treaties have played an important role in the formation of the modern law of nations.

The left flank was generally covered by allied cavalry supplied by the Thessalians, which fought in rhomboid formation and served mainly in a defensive role.

NMDA receptors have a very important role in modulating long term excitation and memory formation.

* Peter Batchelor, Kees Kingma, Guy Lamb, Demilitarisation and Peace-building in Southern Africa: The role of the military in state formation and nation-building, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004

Nepal has played an active role in the formation of the economic development-oriented South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and is the site of its secretariat.

Views of the authoritativeness of the New Testament often depend on the concept of inspiration, which relates to the role of God in the formation of the New Testament.

An early supporter was the French linguist Albert Cuny — better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory — who published his Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en « nostratique », ancêtre de l ' indo-européen et du chamito-sémitique (' Researches on the Vocalism, Consonantism, and Formation of Roots in " Nostratic ", Ancestor of Indo-European and Hamito-Semitic ') in 1943.

Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness ( or rational self-interest ), that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans ' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form — a work of art — that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.

Computer models suggest that collisions of cometary debris during the formation period play a far greater role than was previously thought.

These early stars likely played a role in the cloud's formation, since the number of close stellar passages within the cluster was much higher than today, leading to far more frequent perturbations.

Indian merchants embraced Buddhism and played a large role in spreading the religion across the Mauryan empire

Although the Royal Navy is widely regarded as having been vital for the rise of the British Empire, and British dominance of the world, the British Army played an important role in the colonisation of India and other regions.

A brilliant general, he is considered to be a founding figure of the Middle Ages, often credited with a seminal role in the development of feudalism and knighthood, and laying the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

In the army of the late Roman Empire, cavalry played an increasingly important role.

By the terms of the agreement, the election of bishops and abbots in Germany was to take place in the emperor's presence as judge between potentially disputing parties, free of bribes, thus retaining to the emperor a crucial role in choosing these great territorial magnates of the Empire.

The census played a crucial role in the administration of the Roman Empire, as it was used to determine taxes.

Desertification has played a significant role in human history, contributing to the collapse of several large empires, such as Carthage, Greece, and the Roman Empire, as well as causing displacement of local populations.

The Goths (; ; ; ; ) were an East Germanic tribe whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe.

During the latter part of the Roman period British agricultural products, paid for by both the Roman state and by private consumers, clearly played an important role in supporting the military garrisons and urban centres of the northwestern continental Empire.

The Romans soon spread east taking Greece, and the Greek heritage played an important role in the Roman Empire.

However, he underestimated the political and military strength of the capetanei ( καπεταναίοι – commanders ) who had led the revolt against Ottoman Empire in 1821, and who had expected a leadership role in the post-revolution Government.

Although the Russian Empire would play a leading political role in the next century, secured by its defeat of Napoleonic France, its retention of serfdom precluded economic progress of any significant degree.

He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

The term Latin America was supported by the French Empire of Napoleon III during the French invasion of Mexico, as a way to include France among countries with influence in America and to exclude Anglophone countries, and played a role in his campaign to imply cultural kinship of the region with France.

The fall of the Songhai Empire marked the end of the region's role as a trading crossroads.

This political and temporal authority was demonstrated through the papal role in the Holy Roman Empire ( especially prominent during periods of contention with the Emperors, such as during the Pontificates of Pope Gregory VII and Pope Alexander III ).

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

One of her most recent successes was a supporting role in the television film Empire Falls as Grace Roby, mother of Ed Harris's character Miles Roby.

With his main European rivals subdued, Suleiman had assured the Ottoman Empire a powerful role in the political landscape of Europe.

The nobility of the Slovene-inhabited provinces had an important role in the fight against the Ottoman Empire.

Hence, The Tyndale Bible, as it was known, continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across the English-speaking world and eventually, on the global British Empire.

Tamar sought to make use of the weakness of the Byzantine Empire and the crusaders ' defeat at the hands of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in order to gain Georgia's position on the international stage and to assume the traditional role of the Byzantine crown as a protector of the Christians of the Middle East.

With a minor on the throne, the Empire was thrown into confusion, with Otto III's mother Theophanu assuming the role of regent for her young son.

When World War II broke out in 1939, New Zealanders saw their proper role as defending their proud place in the British Empire.