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| 4833809790 | Harrappan Civilization | Also known as the Indus River Valley Civilization, was a Bronze Age civilization that thrived from roughly 2600 BCE - 1900 BCE which centered in northwestern India and Pakistan along the Indus River. Their major cities included Harappa and Mohenjo-dara | 0 | |
| 4833819558 | Aryans | Groups of people who spoke the Indo-European Sanskrit language. They probably invaded India from the northwest during the 2nd millennium BCE, spreading east and south over the succeeding centuries. By about 500 BCE their language was probably common over most of the Indian subcontinent. Some credit them with laying the foundations of Hinduism | 1 | |
| 4833828407 | Hinduism | The common religion of India, having an extremely diversified character with many school of philosophy and theology, many popular cults and a large pantheon of deities, symbolizing the many attributes of a single god | 2 | |
| 4833832573 | Caste system | The rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes (classes) | 3 | |
| 4833833988 | Untouchables | A member of a large formerly segregated hereditary group in India having in traditional Hindu belief the quality of defiliing by contact a member of a higher caste. They are often considered even being outside the caste system all together | 4 | |
| 4833844009 | Chandragupta Maurya | Founder of the Maurya dynasty and the first emperor (321 - 297 BCE) to unify most of India under one administration. He expanded his empire east to the borders of Persia, south to India's tip, and north to the Himalayas and the Kabul River valley | 5 | |
| 4833847916 | Maurya Empire | An empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya after the death of Alexander the Great, that encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent | 6 | |
| 4833850456 | Ashoka | Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all off the Indian subcontinent from 269 - 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperor, reigned over most of present day India after a number of military conquests. He was one of the first Indian emperors to embrace Buddhism | 7 | |
| 4833855140 | Gupta Dynasty | Rulers of an empire in northern and parts of central and western India from 320 - 550 CE. This period is noted for the flourishing of Sanskrit literature, sophisticated metal coins, advanced mathematics and astronomical advances | 8 |
