Timeline Of Ancient Indian History
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EXAMIVERSE
🧠 Summary Points
- India’s ancient timeline spans Paleolithic tools to the decline of Gupta hegemony.
- Urbanism first flourished in the Indus Valley (c. 2600 – 1900 BCE) with advanced civic planning.
- The Vedic age introduced iron, settled agriculture, and seminal religious texts.
- Mauryan and Gupta empires represent peaks of political unity, administrative sophistication, and cultural efflorescence.
- Post-Mauryan regional kingdoms and foreign dynasties fostered artistic syncretism and expanded trans-regional trade.