Indus Valley Civilization

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2600 BCE

    The rise of the great Indian cities of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa.

  • 2500 BCE

    Well planned cities flourished in the valley

  • 2500 BCE

    Earliest use of the Indus Script

  • 2000 BCE

    Indus valley farmers began to abandon their land

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Newcomers from the north entered the valley

  • 1500 BCE

    Aryans began to migrate into the Indus Valley.

  • 800 BCE

    People of northern India had learned to make tools and weapons out of iron

  • 500 BCE

    There was a strict division of classes

  • 320

    The Gupta dynasty rose to power