Indian contact with the Greeks and Persians provided more than just warfare, but enhanced the economy and administrative tactics. This foreign intervention set the foundation for leaders to construct large empires, with one of them being the Mauryan Empire, and develop a society that still has influence on present day India. India became involved in the battles of the sixth century B.C.E. Persian invasion, by the emperor Darius, reaching into the Indus Valley and Kashmir around 513 B.C.E. Though the Persians did not reach any further, contact between India and Persians allowed for the exchange of administrative techniques on how to rule large tracts of land and huge numbers of people. Also, adopting minting of silver coins and the Aramaic
