Question

answers of cbse class 12 history worksheet A assignment 3
what function were played by major towns of period 600 BC - 1400 AD?

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Answer 1

Answer:

2600 – 1700 BCE Harappan/Indus Valley Civilization

1700 – 600 BCE Vedic Age

1700 – 1000 BCE Early Vedic Age

1000 – 600 BCE Later Vedic Age

321 – 184 BCE Mauryan Empire

c. 2nd century BCE to Kushan Kingdom

3rd century CE

c. 320 – 550 CE Gupta Empire

600 – 1300 CE Early Medieval India

1206 – 1526 CE Delhi Sultanate

3.2 INTRODUCTION: A POLITICAL OVERVIEW

Our knowledge of the ancient world has been radically altered by impressive archaeological discoveries over the last two centuries. Prior to the twentieth century, for instance, historians believed that India’s history began in the second millennium BCE, when a people known as In-do-Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent and created a new civilization. Yet, even during the nineteenth century British explorers and officials were curious about brick mounds dotting the landscape of northwest India, where Pakistan is today. A large one was located in a village named Harappa (see Figure 3.1). A British army engineer, Sir Alexander Cunningham, sensed its importance because he also found other artifacts among the bricks, such as a seal with an inscription. He was, therefore, quite dismayed that railway contractors were pilfering these bricks for ballast. When he became the director of Great Britain’s Archaeological Survey in 1872, he ordered protection for these ruins. But the excavation of Harappa did not begin until 1920, and neither the Archaeological Survey nor Indian archaeologists understood their significance until this time. Harappa, it turned out, was an an-cient city dating back to the third millennium BCE, and only one part of a much larg-er civilization sprawling over northwest India. With the discovery of this lost civiliza-tion, the timeline for India’s history was pushed back over one thousand years.