🌏 India and the World
Five thousand years of links
Trade with Mesopotamia and Rome, Buddhism’s journey across Asia, travellers from China, Morocco and France, colonial rule, and India’s relations since independence — every link from an NCERT chapter. Click a country on the map.
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India and Greece
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Mid-first millennium BCE☸ Religion & ideas
An age of great thinkers
The same age saw Zarathustra in Iran, Kong Zi (Confucius) in China, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Greece, and Mahavira and the Buddha in India.
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Mauryan period👑 Rulers & empires
Greek accounts of the Mauryas
Megasthenes, a Greek ambassador, lived at Chandragupta Maurya's court; Greek sources say the Mauryan army had 600,000 foot-soldiers. Mauryan control reached as far northwest as Afghanistan.
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Asoka's reign🎨 Art & culture
Asoka's edicts in Greek and Aramaic
In Afghanistan, Asoka's inscriptions were written in the Aramaic and Greek scripts.
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c. second century BCE👑 Rulers & empires
The Indo-Greeks
The Indo-Greeks, who ruled the northwest, issued the first coins bearing rulers' names and images.
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c. first century CE🚢 Trade
The Periplus
An anonymous Greek sailor's Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes foreign ships trading on the Malabar coast.
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