The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ...

Like the Chola state, the Five Hundred had a formidable ability to incorporate diverse groups. Its members included Brahmins, wealthy peasants, goldsmiths and, by the early 11th century ...

At the peak or the high tide of Chola expansion in the early 11th century, they very clearly had some of the greatest military and logistical minds that could be found anywhere in South India.