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The Mughal empire was mostly focused on the expanding of the India empire.
1526 - 1530
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Babur was the founder of the Mughal empire. He loved poetry, gardening, and books. Babur died in 1530.
1526
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1530
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Babur’s son humayun was an ineffective ruler because he felt like he could not take in the power that he had. He lost the throne almost as soon as he got it.
1542 - 1627
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Humayun's son, Akbar, was the greatest ruler of all, unlike his grandfather, he was more of a warrior than a scholar. He extended the empire as far south as the krishna river. Akbar married a hindu princess. Akbar had his own son which was named Jahangir.
1627 - 1692
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Jahangir had his own son, Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan left behind a lot of famous monuments of the mughal empire, the taj-majal (his favorites wife’s tomb, Mumtaz), The pearl mosque, the royal mosque, and the red fort. Shah jahan had a son named aurungzebe.
1658 - 1707
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Aurungzebe imprisoned his dad Shah Jahan seeking power in 1658 ACE. Aurungzebe wished to destroy and demolish native traditions. Aurungzebe expanded the empire almost to the whole subcontinent. Aurungzebe could never take over the Mahrattas of Deccan, Who resisted Aurungzebe until he died in 1707 ACE.
1707
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The Mughal empire crashed.
1707
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The three sons fought over the throne when Aurangzeb died which caused war that made the Mughal empire crumble.
The Vedic era was when a group of people came from the north and they were called the Aryans. The Indus and the Aryans made the basis of India.
1700 BCE - 1000 BCE
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Rig-vedic period was when the oldest literature was composed. The Rig-vedas were composed in the Rig-vedic period. The Rig-vedas were a collection of vedic hymns in Sanskrit.
1500 BC
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Religious texts were written in vedic. They are very important to the people of India.
1500 BCE - 500 BCE
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During this time period the Vedas were composed. The Vedas were the sacred books of Hinduism.
1200 BCE - 300 BCE
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The North Indian Iron Age happened. The Iron age is where a culture is introduced to metal objects.
1000 BCE - 850 BCE
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In the brahmanas were a priestly book, which the people created.
1000 BCE
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The 4 castes were the priests and the Brahms first, then came the warriors, the craftsmen, and the servants. Some castes they still have today.
900 BC
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The Indo-Aryans discovered iron and invaded the Ganges valley.
600 BCE
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The janapadas was towns that the vedics created.
600 BC
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The Upanishads were composed in Sanskrit. (the Upanishads were Hindu sacred treatises)
527 BC
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Prince Siddhartha Gautama is enlightened and becomes the buddha in India.
521 BCE
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The Vedic were conquered by the Persians.
518 BCE
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Darius had conquered the Indus Valley civilization.
500 BCE
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The Prince Mahavira founded Jainism in Northern India. Jainism is a different religion.
1600
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In 1600 Queen Elizabeth I gave permission for the British to create the East India Company in India.
1605
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Akbar was a Mughal Emperor until his death. He was the third and greatest ruler of the Mughal era in India, and that's when people say the Mugal Era evolved into the Colonial Era.
1610
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The British chased away a Portuguese trading ships so they could place the East India Company outpost in Surat. The little outpost was soon to be something that would stay for 300 years, and after a while would take over the entire trade in India!
1645
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The British that were thousands of miles away and had finally succeeded in gaining a territory of 300 million people! Even though it seems like its impossible to do, the British succeeded by bribing different Indian Raj's.
1650
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Once the British had made their mark in India they soon had to compt with the French, Dutch, and the angry Portuguese to be king of the trade in India. To become the king of trade the British and others competed through an combo of battle, alliances, and in the end the East India Company had taken control of all European trade in India.
1658
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Aurangzeb was one of the most important British Rajes, and he made the British overthrow their enemies in return for privileges over land, and let them make their own laws in the new kingdom. Aurangzeb was not just a Raj, he was an emperor. So the fact that the british had him was a great advantage to controlling the nation. The British used him to let invited traders to settle near the East India Company’s factory to get more workers for the job. They also persuaded Aurangzeb, the Emperor then, to allow them to trade without paying taxes.
1658
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To battle the incoming French for trade the British came up with a plan, and the plan was to bribe the Raj’s in important cities. A Raj is a kind of a king so the British found important ones and paid him of to make new laws and favor the British in trades. So they called the Raj a British Raj.
1707
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Aurangzeb was one of the most important British Rajes, and he made the British overthrow their enemies in return for privileges over land, and let them make their own laws in the new kingdom. Aurangzeb was not just a Raj, he was an emperor. So the fact that the british had him was a great advantage to controlling the nation. The British used him to let invited traders to settle near the East India Company’s factory to get more workers for the job. They also persuaded Aurangzeb, the Emperor then, to allow them to trade without paying taxes.
1756 - 1765
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When the Nawab of Bengal found out that the British intended on colonising India. He attacked Fort William of Calcutta and began to shut down English factories and warehouses, but the British sent Robert Clive with a army to fight back the battle!
1765
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The battle of Plassey had ended and the British had won. So the East India Company had taken over trade in Bengal because at the time Bengal was one of the major places for valuable trading items.
During the time period there where two kings Cyrus and Darius who conquered the ever-prized Indus Vally
600 BCE
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Jana where tribes bhe janapadas where cities and the mahajanapadas had land.
600 BCE
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sixteen leaders called the mahajanapadas had evolved into the more political entities through the process of gaining land led to kingdoms mahajanapadas.
600 BC
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The mahajanapadas became there own sixteen kingdomes and where known as the mahajanapadas.
500 BC
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A man named Siddhartha Gautama found the religion buddhism.
500 BC - 401 BC
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Chandragupta conquered from Magadha (Bihar)to india.
500 BC
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King Cyrus and Darius moving the empire towards the east and conquered the ever-prized Indus Vally.
426 BC
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Nada conqured the shishunaga dynasty in 426 BC.
326 BC
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The Parisian were then conquered by the Greeks and Alexander the Great.
326 BC
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The Christening concerns wanted to move their empire further east, but there troops refused to move the kingdom. Because of the troops Christening concerns could not move it.
326 BC
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King porus had an army of 200 elephants.
322 BC
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300 BCE
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The earliest surviving tamil literature was created.
The Golden Age was Peace and Prosperity in India. The major empire are The gupta, Chola ,Mauryan empires.
413 BCE
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A Chinese Buddhist pilgrim called Fa Hsien at the age of 65 walked to India from China. He started on foot and returning by sea in 413 CE
300 bce
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Ashoka led the mayan empire and conquered india. This is the first time a single person has led india. Military genius.
300 bc
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Ramayana teaches us the values of ideology, devotion, duty, relationships, dharma and karma.
268 bce - 31 bce
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Ashoka (268-31 BC), the Mauryan empire conquered the entire subcontinent, extending itself as far as Mysore. Under the king Ashoka conquered Orissa, so many of his men died. Maurya empire, and it collapsed only 100 years after his death.Ashoka raided india for 26 years straight.
262 BCE
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Originally a Hindu, Ashoka converted to Buddhism in 262 BCE because so many of his soldiers died in the battle of Kalinga
150 BCE
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The Greeks returned and conquered the Punjab. At this time buddhism was so influential that the Greek king Menander converted himself. Kingdoms loved buddhism it stay around for 100 years with occasionally fighting