🌏 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.
Maps show India’s boundaries as officially depicted by the Government of India. Country shapes are today’s, for orientation only.
India and Iran (Persia)
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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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c. first century CE🚢 Trade
Gold coins like Rome's and Persia's
Kushana gold coins were close in weight to those of the Roman emperors and the Parthian rulers of Iran.
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Indo-Islamic period🎨 Art & culture
Persian and Turkish influences in building
Indo-Islamic buildings show Saracenic, Persian and Turkish influences, yet were heavily shaped by Indian architectural and decorative forms.
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