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Landmark South Asia archaeological

Mohenjo-daro

2500 BCE – still standing

Major center of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Indus valley civilization (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Dravidians (1500 BCE–1000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Vedic Aryans (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Mauryan Empire (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Kushan Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Saka Kingdom (1 BCE–300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Suren Kingdom (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Gupta Empire (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Hindu kingdoms (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Kingdom of Sind (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Saffarids (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Sindh (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Soomra Emirate (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Ghurid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Sultanate of Delhi (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Sind (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  22. Islamic states (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  23. Islamic and Hindu states (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  24. Mughal Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  25. Sind (1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  26. Sindh (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  27. Maratha Confederacy (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  28. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  29. India (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  30. Pakistan (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Taj Mahal

1632 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)

2600 BCE – 1900 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

1967 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

2025 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2500 BCE and 2026 CE.

2400 BCE Lothal 600 BCE Taxila 563 BCE Lumbini 528 BCE Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE Sarnath

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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