India

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Indus river valley

    Writing system, large empire
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Vedic Age

    Kingdom developed, social orders basis for caste system
  • 1499 BCE

    Guru Nanak

    founded Sikhism
  • Period: 618 BCE to 907 BCE

    Medieval Hindu Dynisties

  • Period: 599 BCE to 527 BCE

    Life of Mahavira

    the founder of Jainism
  • Period: 563 BCE to 480 BCE

    Life of Buddha

  • Period: 322 BCE to 185 BCE

    Maurya Period

    Large empire
  • Period: 320 BCE to 647 BCE

    Gupta Empire

    Golden Age, arts & sciences flourished
  • Period: 269 BCE to 232 BCE

    Asoka's rule

    Unified India, one of greatest rulers of all time
  • Period: 185 BCE to 320 BCE

    middle kingdoms

    period of disunty