India's Time Toast

  • 413 BCE

    Chandragupta II

    Chandragupta II expanded the Gupta Empire through conquest and political marriages until the end of his reign in 413 CE.
  • 335 BCE

    Successor

    Samudragupta succeeded his father, Chandragupta I 335 CE. Reincorporated over 20 kingdoms into his realm and extended the Gupta Empire from the Himalayas to the Narmada River
  • 327 BCE

    Unification

    In 327 BCE, Alexander of Macedon and his troops entered India and overran the existing kingdoms in the Punjab region. After two years he left and the kingdom of Magadha used its military to gain control of trade routes.
  • 324 BCE

    Beginning control

    Chandragupta ruled from 324 to 297 BCE before voluntarily giving the throne up to his son, Bindusara, Chandragupta Mauryan established a single currency across India
  • 297 BCE

    Middle of control

    Bindusara ruled from 297 BCE until he died in 272 BCE. This led to a war in which Bindusara’s son, Ashoka, defeated his brother and rose to the throne in 268 BCE
  • 5 BCE

    5 Century and end

    the Gupta empire was a golden age of India. The empire was marked by peace and public safety, and scholars flourished in this environment. The Gupta empire ended with the invasion of the White Huns, a nomadic tribe of people from central Asia, at the end of the fifth century CE
  • 260

    Gupta Empire

    Founded by Sri Gupta sometime between 240 and 280 CE
  • 268

    End of control

    Became the most successful and powerful ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty. And later died