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Landmark South Asia archaeological

Sanchi Stupas

300 BCE – 1200 CE · 1,500 years

Buddhist monument complex in central India, crowned by the Great Stupa commissioned by Emperor Ashoka

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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–323 BCE)
  2. Mauryan Empire (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Shunga Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Saka Kingdom (1 BCE–300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Gupta Empire (400 CE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Hindu kingdoms (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Gurjara Pratihara (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Rajput Kingdoms (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Paramaras (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Rajput Kingdoms (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sultanate of Delhi (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Berar (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Islamic states (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Islamic and Hindu states (1530 CE–1650 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Mughal Empire (1700 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Maratha Confederacy (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. India (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Ghaznavid Conquests of India

1001 CE – 1030 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Ellora Caves

600 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 1200 CE.

300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Ai-Khanoum 300 BCE Somnath Temple 300 BCE Swayambhunath 262 BCE Kalinga War

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Chandragupta Maurya Figure · India 340 BCE – 297 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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