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HISTORY The history of India is begins as trade with the Roman empire in long as 75,000 years ago when there 130 BCE when there were up to is evidence of human activity or as 120 ship sailings per year between long ago as 500,000 years ago with Myos Hormos on the Red Sea to earlier hominids. A detailed history India. of India would fill volumes of POPULATION books and take countless hours to From the 7th to the 9th century, India has the second-largest cover properly so this is only a several dynasties contested for population in the world with a brief account of Indian history-one control of northern India: the population of 1.15 billion, of the oldest continual civilizations Gurjara Pratiharas of Malwa, the exceeded only by that of China. on earth. Eastern Ganga dynasty of Orissa, By 2030, the population will be the Palas of Bengal, and the the largest in the world, estimated Rashtrakutas of the Deccan. After The Indus Valley Civilization to be around 1.53 billion. flourished in the northwestern part conquering Persia, Arab Islamic Caliphate incorporated parts of India from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE TIME making it the first major what is now Pakistan around 720 India is GMT plus 5 1/2 hours. civilization in India and then later a CE. The Muslim rules were keen to India is 10.5 hours ahead of East more technologically advanced and invade India which was a rich Coast time, except during sophisticated urban culture region, flourishing with Daylight savings when it is 9.5 developed in the Mature Harappan international trade and the only hours ahead. period from 2600 to 1900 BCE. known diamond mines in the During the bronze age the world at the time. VISAS civilization was located primarily United States Citizens require a located in the modern day Indian In 1526, Babur, a Timurid Visa. Make sure your passport provinces of Rajasthan, Punjab, descendant of Timur and Genghis has at least 6 months validity left. Gujarat, and Haryana. India has Khan from Fergana Valley, swept Also make sure you have made a gone through periods of Persian across the Khyber Pass and BanGkok few extra copies of your passport and Greek conquests that had established the Mughal Empire, and make sure that you carry a major repercussions on Indian covering what is modern day copy in your checked luggage, a Civilization including the Persians Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and copy in your carry on baggage forms of governance and attributes Bangladesh. The Mughals were and a copy with your personal of Greek architecture and culture perhaps the richest single dynasty items. influenced the emergence of a to have ever existed. It was during hybrid early Indian culture. this time that an amalgam of INSURANCE Islamic, Persian, Turkish, and The Golden age of Indian Indian architecture came together It is advisable to purchase in to define Mughal architecture and Civilization was a middle period of addition to normal medical notable cultural development. The perhaps the most notable example insurance, to take out a policy Satavahana dynasty, also known as of Mughal architecture is the which covers evacuation. magnificent Taj Mahal at Agra. the Andhras, ruled in southern and central India around 230 BCE. And defeated the Sunga Empire of north The Colonia era began when in India. Then afterwards the warrior 1498, Vasco da Gama successfully king of Kalanga, Kharavela ruled a discovered a new sea route from vast empire that included maritime Europe to India, which paved the trading routes with Burma, Sri way for direct Indo-European Lanka, and the Malay Archipelago. commerce. The Portuguese soon set up trading posts in Goa, There was an increase in Indian Daman, Diu and Bombay. The next