India history

Ancient India Timeline-Melanie Loaiza &

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  • 19,000 BCE

    Decline of Mohenjo Daro & Harappa

    Decline of Mohenjo Daro & Harappa
    Both settlements were located along Indus River. It was destroyer because of the severe flooding from the Indus River.
  • 1500 BCE

    Aryan Invasion

    Aryan Invasion
    It was the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit and the major European languages. It was descovered by the Eurpean scholars during the colonial era.
  • 624 BCE

    Siddartha Guatama founds Buddhism

    Siddartha Guatama founds Buddhism
    Buda Guatama is the founder of the religion Buddhism ,it was born at now the non existent republic of Sakia in the Himalaya. The differ of Hunduism is that they don´t have an exactly founder and not a single scripture.
  • 320 BCE

    Mauryan Empire

    Mauryan Empire
    The Mauryan Empire (322 BCE - 185 BCE) supplanted the earlier Magadha Kingdom to assume power over eastern and northern India.Their two biggest leader were Chandragupta and Ashoka.The fall of the empire came about 50 years after Ashoka's death, the Mauryan king was killed by his general-in-chief, Pushyamitra, who founded the Shunga dynasty.
  • 304 BCE

    Reign of Asoka

    Reign of Asoka
    Emperor Ashoka the Great was the third ruler of the Indian Mauryan Empire, the largest ever in the Indian subcontinent and one of the world's largest empires at its time. Ashoka ruled the empire like his grandfather did, in an eficient but cruel way. He used military strength in order to expand the empire and created sadistic rules against criminals.
  • 261 BCE

    Battle of Kalinga

    Battle of Kalinga
    The Battle of Kalinga was one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in Indian subcontinent.After the war of Kalinga, Ashoka controlled all the Indian subcontinent except for the extreme southern part and he could have easily controlled that remaining part as well, but he decided not to.Some versions says that he was sickened by the slaughter of the war and refused to keep on fighting.
  • 320

    Gupta Dynasty

    Gupta Dynasty
    The Gupta Empire stretched across northern, central and parts of southern India between c. 320 and 550 CE.It began a period of overall prosperity and growth that continued for the next two and half centuries which came to be known as a “Golden Age” in India’s history.