| Definition |
Point on Timeline |
| Neolithic Revolution: Villages formed on Indus River |
3500-3000 BCE |
| Cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are inhabited |
2300 and 2000 BCE |
| Aryans invaded through Khyber Pass formed Indo-Aryan people |
1750-1500 BCE |
| Vedic Age. Indus Valley and Ganges Plains are settled; Hinduism begun. |
1500-1000 BCE |
| Indus Valley population increases |
1000-560 BCE |
| Siddharta Gautama born. Later forms Buddhism |
560 BCE |
| Jains formed |
500 BCE |
| Alexander the Great invades western and northern India |
326 BCE |
| Chandragypta seizes power, unifies N. India, began Mauryan dynasty |
300 BCE |
| Mauryan Empire |
200 BCE -- 320 AC/CE |
| Silk Road Trade |
184 BCE |
| Jesus of Nazereth |
AD1 or 1CE |
| Asoka of Mauryan Empire united India except for extreme southern tip; converted to Buddhism |
300 BCE |
| Golden Age of Gupta; art and literature flourished |
320--520 AD/CE |
| Huns Invade |
455 AD/CE |
| Huns formed the rajput warrior caste |
650 AD/CE |
| Muslim Dominance of India |
1000 -- 1700s AD/CE |
| Mahmud of Ghazni invades northern India; Delhi becomes a sultanate; 1st muslim stronghold |
1000 AD/CE |
| Timur the lame (tamerlane) conquers Delhi sultanate |
1398 AD/CE |
| Mugal Empire |
1495 -- 1556 AD/CE |
| King Akbar of the Mogul Empire ruled India again |
1556 AD/CE |
| Aurangzle is Last of the Moguls |
1700s AD/CE |
| English Dominance of India |
1800 -- 1947 AD/CE |
| Gandhi killed |
1949 AD/CE |
| India, Pakistan, Bengladesh are all indpendent countries |
2006 AD/CE (today) |
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