Assertion: country's state | /r/CapableOf | consolidate into 16 major oligarchies
Facets:
value: around the 6th century bce
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the late vedic period
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the late Vedic period, around the 6th century BCE, the small states and chiefdoms of the Ganges Plain and the north-western regions had consolidated into 16 major oligarchies and monarchies that were known as the mahajanapadas.