Miscellaneous...

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• Sulaiman & Kirthar Hills - First began to grow crops...Wheat & Barley
• Vindhyas North - Rice first grown
• South of Ganga - Magadha Kingdom...
• Manuscripts - By hand on palm leaf of birch tree
• Inscriptions - on surface of stone / Metals
• BC- Before Khrist & AD - Anno Domini (In the year of God)
• Rock painting - MP & southern UP about wild animals.
• Hunsgi - Limestone Tools
• Jadaite tool - stone from China in Daojali hading
• Domestication beginings - about 12000 yrs ago.
• Harrappa - Copper, Bronze, Gold & Silver. 
• Chandragupta --- Bindusara ---- Ashoka
• In Arthshastra - North west - Blankets And South India - Gold & Precious stones.
• Megasthenes Seculus Nicota - Ambassador to Chandragupta..
• Ashoka's Inscriptions - Brahmi Script.
• Asoka sent messengers - Syriya, Egypt, Greece, & Sri Lanka.
• Shaka - Central Asian People.
• Use of iron in Subcontinent - 3000 Yrs ago.
• Sangam Literature - 2300 yrs. ago.
• Jataka Katha - by Buddhist Monk.
• Mathura - Second capital of Kushanas
• Shrenis - Association of craft persons & merchants.
• Arikamedu - old name of Puducherry.
• Madurai - capital of Pandyas.
• Techniques of making silk first invented in China 7000 yrs ago.
• Kushanas - Rulers of silk root & Earliest rulers to iisue Gold Coins....
• Harishena  - Poet in Samudragupta
• Prayag - Old name of Allahabad
• Samudragupta - Kalidasa & Aryabhatta courter
• Pallavas - capital - Kanchipuram to Kaveri Delta.
• Chalukyas - Raichur Doab, betn Krishna & Tungbhadra & capital - Aihole
• Chalukya ruler Pulakeshin - Prashsti by Ravikirti Poet.
• Begining of Guptas - 1700 yrs ago.
• Begining of Harshvardhana - 1400 yrs ago.
• Iron pillar @ Mehrauli, Delhi.
•  Paper invented by Cai Lun (Chinese) - 1900 yrs ago
• Arab Geographers Al- Idrisi - 1154 CE - Map of Indian Continent 
• In 1720s Map by French Cartographer
• Early 16th century, Babur used Hindustan to describe Geography, Fauna & Culture.
• 14th century, Amir Khusrau - Used Hind word.
• Miniature painting (10.5*7.1 cm) - painting used to illustrate texts of manuscripts.
• 14th century chronicler "Ziyaddin Barani" - his chronicle first in 1356.
• Shia Muslims - Belived prophet Mohammad's son-in-law, Ali leader of community
• Sunni - Early leaders (Khalifas) of community.
• Cholas in Tn - Taxes - Vetti - in form of forced labour & Kadamai - land revenue.
• History of King of Kashmir - by Kalhana.
• Sultan mahamud - scholar al-Biruni - Kitabal- Hind (Arabic).
• Chahaman Ruler - Prathviraj III ---- defeated --Sultan Muhmad Ghori 1191
• Vijayalaya (Cholas) - Built--- Thanjaur & temple of Nishambhasudini
• Chola bronze images are finest in world.
• Tang Dynasty in China - 7th to 10th century.                                                                    
  
   
  
  
  

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