Iron Age villages of western India

Iron Age villages of western India appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Malwa (South Asia) from c. 1200 to 200 BCE, a span of 1,000 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Farming communities using iron tools and black and red ware pottery across Malwa, Rajasthan and Gujarat, the base from which early historic towns such as Ujjain and Vidisha grew.

See Iron Age villages of western India on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1200 to 200 BCE

Duration

1,000 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Rajasthan, Gujarat and Malwa, South Asia

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Events in South Asia during its time

• 1000 BCE Iron spreads across the Ganges plain
• 483 BCE Death of the Buddha
• 326 BCE Alexander at the Hydaspes
• 261 BCE Ashoka's Kalinga war
• 247 BCE Buddhism reaches Sri Lanka

Neighbours in South Asia

• Maurya Empire 322 to 185 BCE
• Anuradhapura Kingdom 377 BCE to 1017 CE
• Kuru Kingdom c. 1200 to 500 BCE
• Indo-Greek Kingdom c. 200 BCE to 10 CE
• Achaemenid eastern satrapies c. 535 to 330 BCE
• Greco-Bactrian Kingdom c. 256 to 120 BCE
• Magadha (Haryanka dynasty) c. 544 to 413 BCE
• Nanda Empire c. 345 to 322 BCE
• Panchala c. 1100 to 350 BCE
• Early Cholas c. 300 BCE to 300 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa
• Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe
• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE, Middle East
• Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE, Central and North Asia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE, North and West Africa
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE, Middle East

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