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Conflict South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE · 345 years

The Kushans built a vast empire spanning Central Asia to the Ganges, becoming a crucial link on the Silk Road and one of the great patrons of Gandharan Buddhist art.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Kushan Empire (Kujula Kadphises, Kanishka)
  • Indo-Parthians, Indo-Scythians

Key moments

Defining events in the Kushan Empire Conquests.

  1. c. 75 AD Conquest of Gandhara
  2. Kanishka's campaigns in the Gangetic plain

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · South Asia

Temple of the Tooth

300 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Gupta Empire

300 CE – 550 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta

335 CE – 375 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Tirumala Venkateswara Temple

300 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Kushan Empire

Attested 100 BCE – 100 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Pallavas

275 CE – 897 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 30 CE and 375 CE.

100 CE Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple 300 CE Temple of the Tooth 300 CE Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 335 CE Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta 368 CE Polonnaruwa

And in the rest of the world

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

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