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Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; [2] by 4500 BCE, settled life had spread, [2] and gradually evolved into the Indus Valley Civilisation, one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World, [3] [4] flourished between 2500 BCE and 1900 BCE in present-day Pakistan and north-western India.
India says the number of its people with HIV or AIDS is about half of earlier official tallies. Health ministry figures put the total at between 2 million and 3.1 million cases, compared with previous estimates of more than 5 million. 25 July: Pratibha Patil becomes first woman to be elected president of India 2008: July
The Indo-Aryan Vedic civilization and main polities in Eurasia around 1300 BCE. Iron Age India (c. 1800 – c. 200 BCE) Vedic civilization (c. 1700 – c. 600 BCE) Black and red ware culture (c. 1500 –700 BCE) in Western Ganges plain [5] Northern Black Polished Ware (c. 1200 –500 BCE) [6] Painted Grey Ware culture (c. 1200 or 700–300 BCE) [7]
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
An alliance existed between Devanampiya Tissa and Ashoka of India, [97] who sent Buddhist missionaries to Sri Lanka. [98] Most of North India was reunited under the Gupta Empire beginning under Chandragupta I around AD 320. Under his successors the empire spread to include much of India except for the Deccan Plateau and the very south of the ...
A cave in the Himalayas revealed the most detailed explanation yet for the ancient civilization’s decline. Indus valley civilization disappeared 3,600 years ago — we finally know why, study ...
Arnold, David (2004), The New Cambridge History of India: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56319-4. Baber, Zaheer (1996), The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-2919-9.