Urbanisation  Increased agricultural activity and settled life led to the rise of sixteen Mahajanapadas (large territorial states) in north India in the sixth century BC. Anga, Magadha, Vatsa, Kasi, Kosala, Kuru, Pancala, Surasena, Matsya, Gandhara, Kamboja, Cedi, Avanti, Asvaka, Malla and Vajji. It  enabled Magadh, one of these states to defeat all others to rise […]