Harappan Seal Who were the Harappans? Around 4500 BC, some new people from West Asia moved into the Indus Valley and mixed with the Mehrgahr people who were already there. They brought some [...]
Harappan art: Dancing woman from Mohenjo Daro, in what is now Pakistan Harappan art - the Bronze Age By the Bronze Age, around 2000 BC, people in northern India were [...]
Mughal Empire - Babur, first Mughal ruler Timur's descendants: the Mughal Empire Timur's empire collapsed when he died in 1405 AD. Then the Mongols lost control of India for a while. Local Muslim leaders formed small [...]
Modern India: Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous Nehru hat Who ruled India and Pakistan after independence? India became independent in 1946. Jawaharlal Nehru, the son of a powerful Congress leader, was [...]
Indian National Congress (1885) with Gandhi in it Indian National Congress By the 1880s, India was becoming a very poor country. That was because the British government made all their choices [...]
Himalaya Mountains India breaks off of Africa About 55 million years ago, plate tectonics made the land that is now India break off from what is now Africa. At this [...]
History of almonds: Almonds drying after harvest (Southern Spain) Where do almonds come from? Wild almonds are related to peaches and apples. Almonds probably evolved about the same time, around five [...]
A White Hun coin In the 300s AD, the White Huns were living in the kingdom of the Rouran, in Central Asia north-west of China. Probably the White Huns were mostly [...]
A melon stall in Central Asia After Tamerlane died in 1405, his Altaic people kept on ruling Central Asia, but not as one big empire. There were lots of little [...]
Ahmad Shah Durrani's burial mausoleum (Kandahar, Pakistan) Afghanistan after the Mongol Empire After the Mongol Empire collapsed, Afghanistan's land was mostly split between the Mughal Empire of India and the Safavid [...]
