📄 Revision sheet · YugMap
The Vedic age
1,500–601 BCE
Key events
| c. 1,500 BCE · Sapta Sindhu | Composition of the Rigveda begins |
| c. 1,400 BCE · Inamgaon | Jorwe farming villages at Inamgaon |
| c. 1,300 BCE · Harappa | Cemetery H culture at Harappa |
| c. 1,200 BCE · Parushni (Ravi) river | Battle of the Ten Kings |
| c. 1,100 BCE · Atranjikhera | Iron comes into use in the Ganga plain |
| c. 1,000 BCE · Hastinapura | Painted Grey Ware settlements spread in the doab |
| c. 1,000 BCE · Kuru-Panchala region | Later Vedic texts: Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda |
| c. 900 BCE · Hastinapura | Kuru kingdom consolidates Vedic ritual |
| c. 800 BCE · Videha | Early Upanishads composed |
| c. 700 BCE · Kaushambi | Second urbanisation: Northern Black Polished Ware |
Key terms
- Gotra
- A Brahmanical way of classifying people (from c. 1000 BCE), each gotra named after a Vedic seer; members of the same gotra could not marry. (NCERT Class 12, Kinship, Caste and Class)
Next steps
Years are from YugMap’s records; dates marked c. are approximate. Printed from yugmap.com.