Classical India

Maurya, Kushan and Gupta — the subcontinental empires that carried Buddhism out of India and set the terms of its classical culture.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

3 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Sasanian Empire and Satavahana Empire. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

300 BC200 BC100 BC100200300400500600Nanda Empire 361 BC – 322 BCMaurya Empire 322 BC – 185 BCIndo-Greek Kingdoms 200–180 BC to 10 BC – AD 10Shunga Empire 185 BC – 72 BCKanva Empire 72 BC – 27 BCKushan Empire 30 – 375Gupta Empire 320 – 550Harsha Empire 606 to 647–648322 BC Maurya Empire overthrew Nanda Empire185 BC Shunga Empire overthrew Maurya Empire72 BC Kanva Empire overthrew Shunga Empire