India Timeline

By Dwyane
  • 220

    Expands throughout India

    The Maurya dynasty under Ashoka's son Bindusara expands to almost all of India (http://scaruffi.com/politics/indians.html)
  • 270

    Like Grandfather, Like Grandson

    Chandrugupta's grandson, Ashoka, took power of the Mauryans in 270 BC
  • 320

    Chandragupta

    In 320 BC, a soldier named Chandragupta Maurya stopped power in India. He started the Mauryan Empire.
  • 320

    Cyrus II

    In 320BC the Persians stopped stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River Valley.
  • 320

    Maurya unites

    The Mauryan Empire unites a lot of the Indian subcontinent.
  • 550

    Started

    In 550 BC, the Persian Empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River Valley.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Aryans

    In 1500 BC, the Aryans invaded the Indus River Valley.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Writing in Form

    By the sixteenth century BC, the Aryans form of language was written in form.

  • Invasion of India

    Indo-Aryans invade India from the west and expel the Dravidians (http://scaruffi.com/politics/indians.html)

  • Disappearence

    Sometime around 1700 BC, the Harappan civilization suddenly vanished.

  • Declines

    The civilization of the Indus Valley declines. (http://scaruffi.com/politics/indians.html)

  • Mauryan

    The Mauryan Empire ended in about 185 BC.

  • Civilization

    The Indus River Valley Civilization however began around 2500 BC.

  • Harappa

    In the same year the Indus Civilization began, the Harappan civilization was thriving.

  • Indus

    People began to settle in the Indus River Valley in about 3500 BC.