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3. TIME LINE
1500
1250
1000
750
500
250
BC
AD
Sumerian Cuneiform Scripts
3400 BC->
Egyptian Hieroglyphics 3100 BC | - 394 AD
Indus Script
Chinese Script 1500 BC->
2200 -
1500 BC
Zarthustra 630 - 553
Moses 1447 BC
Confucius 551-478
300 BC Parts of
Rig Veda Written down
King David 1085-1015
Tao Te Ching 604 - 571
Pythagorus
(581-497)
Vedas are claimed to have been compiled starting this
period.
Mahavira
Jina: Vardhamana
540-468
Jesus 6BC-AD 30
Oral Transmission
--1200 years
The Sanskrit hypothesis, however, is difficult to reconcile chronologically with the date of the Indus civilisation (about the second half of the third millennium B.C.) and antecedent Early Harappan neolithic cultures which were responsible for its creation. Comparison of the Vedic texts with the Avesta and with the West Asian documents relating to the Aryan kings of Mitanni suggests that the Vedic Aryans entered the Indian subcontinent from Northeast Iran and Central Asia in the second millennium B.C.
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