Ganges Plain

Examples of Ganges Plain in the following topics:

• The Indo-Aryan Migration and the Vedic Period

  • Different theories explain the Vedic Period, c. 1200 BCE, when Indo-Aryan people on the Indian subcontinent migrated to the Ganges Plain.
  • Foreigners from the north are believed to have migrated to India and settled in the Indus Valley and Ganges Plain from 1800-1500 BCE.
  • Vedic Civilization is believed to have been centered in the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent and spread around 1200 to the Ganges Plain, a 255-million hectare area (630 million acres) of flat, fertile land named after the Ganges River and covering most of what is now northern and eastern India, eastern parts of Pakistan, and most of Bangladesh.
  • From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and ploughs enabled the Indo-Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western Ganges Plain.
  • The Ganges Plain is supported by the Indus and Ganges river systems.

• Disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization

  • By 1800 BCE, the Indus Valley climate grew cooler and drier, and a tectonic event may have diverted the Ghaggar Hakra river system toward the Ganges Plain.
  • The Harappans may have migrated toward the Ganges basin in the east, where they established villages and isolated farms.

• Centralization in the Maurya Empire

  • The Mauryan Army eliminated regional chieftains, private armies and even gangs of bandits who sought to impose their own supremacy in small areas.
  • The Mauryan Empire was divided into four provinces, with the imperial capital at Pataliputra, near the Ganges River in the modern state of Bihar in India.

• Crises of the Republic

  • Clodius eventually formed armed gangs that terrorized Rome and began to attack Pompey’s followers, who formed counter-gangs in response, marking the end o fhte political alliance between Pompey and Caeser.
  • Beginning in the summer of 54 BCE, a wave of political corruption and violence swept Rome, reaching a climax in January 52, when Clodius was murdered in a gang war.

• Rise of the Gupta Empire

  • By 321 CE, he established a realm stretching along the Ganges River to Prayag, the modern-day city of Allahabad, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
  • By his death in 380 CE, Samudragupta had incorporated over 20 kingdoms into his realm and extended the Gupta Empire from the Himalayas to the Narmada River in central India and from the Brahmaputra River that cuts through four modern Asian nations to the Yamuna, the longest tributary of the Ganges River in northern India.

• The Legislative Assembly

  • They were called the Marsh (Le Marais) or the Plain (La Plaine).

• Politics within the Revolutionaries

  • They were called "the Marsh" (Le Marais) or "the Plain" (La Plaine).

• Expansion and Decline of the Kushan Empire

  • Around 270 CE, their territories on the Gangetic Plain became independent under local dynasties such as the Yaudheyas.

• Rise of the Maurya Empire

  • Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (modern Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh) in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra (modern Patna).

• The Bantu Migration

  • Two main groups developed, the Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi), who occupied the eastern coastal plains, and the Sotho–Tswana who lived on the interior plateau.