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Indo-European tribes, known collectively as Aryans, enter India from the northwest.
The Aryans bring into India the roots of Hinduism, with the Brahmans as a priestly caste.
Sacrificial hymns of the Aryans, gathered in the Rigveda, become the earliest Sanskrit literature

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The European tribes enter India which brought the roots of Hinduism.

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Muslims, arriving from Persia through Baluchistan, occupy the region of Sind in western India\

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Hindu hermits live in groups described as ashramas.

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The Sinhalese, after moving south through India, cross into Sri Lanka.

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The Sinhalese, after moving south through India, cross into Sri Lanka

The Indian physician Susruta pioneers plastic surgery of the nose

Indian medical theory maintains that the body consists of three humours - spirit, phlegm and bile

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Vardhamana, an Indian prince, leaves home to live as a beggar - at the start of the Jain religion.

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The Indian physician Susruta pioneers plastic surgery of the nose
dian medical theory maintains that the body consists of three humours - spirit, phlegm and bile
Vardhamana, an Indian prince, leaves home to live as a beggar - at the start of the Jain religion

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Siddartha Gautama, a prince in Nepal, leaves home to become a wandering ascetic

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| Gautama Buddha preaches his first sermon, at Sarnath, setting out the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold PathGautama, after a night of meditation under a pipal tree at Buddh Gaya, is 'enlightened' and becomes the Buddha

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Buddha introduces a vigorous tradition of monasticism, in the order of Buddhist monks known as Sangha

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| The Upanishads, written over a long period from oral tradition, are the mystical texts of early HinduismThe kingdom of Magadha, with its capital at Rajgir (near modern Patna), emerges as the dominant power in north India

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The kingdom of Magadha, with its capital at Rajgir (near modern Patna), emerges as the dominant power in north India
| The Mahabharata, India's great national epic, begins to take shape

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Alexander takes a major new step, leaving Persian territory and moving through the mountain passes into India

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| In the Indian monsoon Alexander's Greek troops have finally had enough and threaten to mutiny unless he turns for home

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Chandragupta Maurya seizes the throne of Magadha, in India, and establishes the Mauryan dynasty

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Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma emerge as India's trio of main gods, with the Vedic religion of the Aryans evolving into Hinduism

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272 BCE | Asoka, a devotee of Buddhism, wins the Mauryan throne and establishes India's first empire

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Asoka, extending his rule over much of India, proclaims his Buddhist faith on pillars and in rock inscriptions.

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The delicate seals of the Indus civilization are in a script as yet undeciphered

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Buddhism reaches Sri Lanka as a result of the missionary efforts of the Indian ruler, Asoka

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Indian cavalrymen ride with their big toes in loops of leather or fabric - a first step towards the stirrup

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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735950.timeline.0001# Mustafa Obaid

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The delicate seals of the Indus civilization are in a script as yet undeciphered

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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735950.timeline.0001# Mustafa Obaid

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The delicate seals of the Indus civilization are in a script as yet undeciphered

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hindu temple sculptors develop a sinuous and full-bodied style for the naked female form

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| Hindu temple sculptors develop a sinuous and full-bodied style for the naked female form

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The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the earliest surviving Buddhist stupa

A doctrinal split emerges within Jainism over whether a devotee must go naked (sky clad) or may be allowed a simple robe (white clad)

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The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the earliest surviving Buddhist stupa

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A naturalistic style of Buddhist sculpture develops in the Gandhara region, part of modern Pakistan

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Kanishka rules the Kushan empire of Afghanistan and northern India from his capital at Peshawar