600 CE - 606 - 647 CE King Harshavardhana ruled the whole of north India from the city of - Kannauj . Pulakeshin checked his advance to the south. - - 608 - 642 CE Pulakesin (a Jainist), belonging to the Chalukya dynasty, defeated Harsha - and ruled from from the city of Vatapi . He expanded his kingdom further south, defeating 650 - many kings, including Mahendravarman, of the Pallava dynasty , who ruled Kanchipuram. - - 630 CE Hiuen Tsang came to India and traveled to - various towns and villages of India for many years. - 700 - 600 - 630 AD Mahendravarman ruled, and converted from Jainism to Shaivism. After a few - - years his son Narsimhavarman defeated and killed Pulakeshin. He also looted his capital - city of Vatapi. - In the court of Harsha lived a 750 – Sanskrit poet named - Banabhatta while in - Kanchipuram lived a - - storywriter named Dandin. 800 – - - - - 850 - - - - 750 - 1000 CE three large kingdom emerged - the kingdom of the Pala dynasty in Bengal, of - the Pratihara dynasty in north India and of the Rashtrakuta dynasty in Maharashtra. They 900 - kept fighting with each other for supremacy. - - - - 950 – - - - - 977 - 1010 CE the ruler of Afghanistan, Mahmud Ghaznavi attacked the kingdoms of 1000 – north India several times and looted their wealth. - 985 - 1014 CE Rajaraja Chola - 1014 - 1014 CE Rajendra Chola - 1000 AD to 1200 AD The - Chola dynasty came up in the 1050 - 1030 AD Al Biruni, the famous scholar from the kingdom of - Mahmud Ghaznavi, wrote a book about his study of the religion, far south, defeating many rulers - customs, science, mathematics, astronomy, and people of India. of south India, Sri Lanka, - Malaysia, and Indonesia and - captured their lands. 1100 - - 1070 – 1118 CE Kullottunga Chola - - - 1150 - - 1000 - 1035 CE Bhoja, of the Paramara dynasty ruled a large kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. - Bhoja was deeply interested in science, literature and architecture. Bhoja also wrote a book on - machines of that time. He built the Bhojashala, a temple for the Goddess Saraswati in his capital, - Dhara, where scholars used to assemble and debate over various issues. 1200 CE - Kingdoms Timeline 1. Were king Harsha and the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang contemporaries of each other? __________________________________________________________________ 2. Are you a contemporary of Harsha? ___________________________________________ 3. Which people or dynasties on the following list were contemporaries of the dynasties given below? List: Al Biruni Mahendravarman Huen Tsang Rajendra Chola Mahmud Ghaznavi Harsha Rashtrakuta dynasty Pratihara dynasty Contemporaries of Chalukya dynasty: _____________________________________________________________________ Contemporaries of Pala dynasty: _____________________________________________________________________ Contemporaries of Parmara dynasty: _____________________________________________________________________ 4. Name the important kings who were fighting amongst each other between 600 AD to 750 AD._________________________________________________________________ 5. Name the dynasties that fought wars between 750 AD to 1000 AD. __________________ 6. Between 600 AD to 1000 AD which sects were becoming popular? _________________ 7. Name the countries from where travellers came to India between 600 AD to 1200 AD. What were their names? Why did they come to India? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 8. The rulers of which dynasty extended their empire outside India? ___________________________________________________________________________ 9. Where did Bhoja rule? Where was his capital? What were his interests? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ .