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Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE
Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
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520 BCE
Invasion of India by Darius of Persia
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327 BCE
Invasion of India by Alexander of Macedon
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Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE
Mauryan dynasty
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Period: 321 BCE to 297 BCE
Reign of Chandragupta Maurya
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Period: 268 BCE to 232 BCE
Reign of Ashoka Maurya
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Period: 182 BCE to 1 CE
Bactrian rule in northern India
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Period: 1 CE to 300
Kushan empire in norther India and central Asia
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Period: 78 to 103
Reign of Kushan emperor Kanishka
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Period: 320 to 550
Gupta dynasty
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Period: 540 to 468
Life of Vardhamana Mahavira
