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CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

                      India                                                                                       China                                        Japan                           Korea

        Indus Valley Period C 2500 - C 1500                                                         1550                                                       Jomon              87
                                                                                                    1050                                                                                           37
1200                                                                                                              Shang                                        Yayoi                                                 18
1100
1000              Vedic Period                                                                      1030                                                                                                             660
                                                                                                     Western                                                                      668
  900   800
  800                                                                                                  Zhou                                                                                 United Silla
  700   642                                                                                                                   722             480
  600                                                                                               711 770                  Spring        Warring                                935
  500   Saisunaga-Nanda Dynasty                                                                                                             States
  400                                                                                                              Eastern     and          Period                                       Goryeo Dynasty
  300                                                                                                                Zhou   Autumn
  200                                                                                                                        Period           222                                 1392
  100
                                                                                                                              481         Qin                                                  Joseon
    36                                                                                                                                                                                      (Yi) Dynasty
0 a.d.   322                                                                       322                          256                                 200
        185 Maurya Dynasty 200                                                                                                                                                    1910
  100   72 Sunga Dynasty                             Bactrian                                          202 221 - 206
                                                 Monarchy                                           Former
  200   32 Early Andhra
  300                                    Indo-Parthian                                                Han
                                      Period                                                        Western
  400                                     50
        50 a.d.                       50                                                                8
  500
                                                                                                     25
  600
  700                                                     Later                                                   Later Han                         250                                                    Paekche Dynasty
                                                         Andhra                                                    Eastern                                                                    Koguryo Dynasty
  800                                                                                                                                                                             Old Silla Dynasty
  900                                                                                               220
1000
          Kushan                      320                                                           316 Three Kingdoms and Western Jin
1100     Dynasty
1200                                      Gupta                                                     317             Sixteen          386                  Kofun (Tumulus)
1300        and                          Dynasty                                                                  Kingdoms
        Successors                                                                                   Eastern Jin
1400                                                                                                              439
1500                                                                                                420
                                                                                                                        Northern Wei
1600                                                                                                      Song
1700
                                                                                                    479
1800
1900                                                                                                502 Qi        534                               552

                                                                                   550              557 Liang     581       Northern Dynasties      646 Asuka
                                                                                                    589 Chen
        600                           600                                                                                      Sui

            Pallava                   642 Chalukya 618                                                                                                            Hakuho
           Dynasty
                                                                                                                                                         Nara      Tempyo
        750 Tang
                                                                                                                                                    794        894 Early Heian
                                            757 765
                                   800                                 Rastrakuta  Solanki Dynasty

                                                       907

        Pala           907            Chandella Dynasty                                             Ten Kingdoms  960 Five 947 Chidan
        and                                                                                         979           Dynasties
                       Chola                                           973                                                                              Heian
                                                                                                                                           990
                                                                                                                                                    1185              Late Heian
          Sena          1053                                                                        Northern Song Liao Xixia                                          (Fujiwara)
        Dynasties
                       1076                                                                                                 1125 1126
                                                                                                    1126
                                                                       1111 1197                    1127          1115          Jin

        1200                                                Hoysala and1318                         Southern 1234
        1251                                             Yadava                                           Song
                                                                                                    1279          1260
               Pandya  Ganga Kingdom
        1310                          1315                                                                                                                  Kamakura
                                      1310                                                                                                                Nambokucho
                                                                                                                  Yuan                              1333
                                                                                                                                                    1392
                                                                                                    1368

                             Vijayanagar                                                            Ming                    Hongzhi 1505
                                Dynasty
                                                                                                    Hongwu 1398             Zhengde 1521                  Muromachi
                      1586 1565                                                                                                                           Momoyama
                                                                                                    Jianwen       1402      Jiajing       1566
                 Rajput Dynasty
                                                                                                    Xuande 1426/35          Longqing 1572

                                                                                                    Zhengtong 1449          Wanli         1620      1568
                                                                                                                                                    1600
                                                                                                    Jingtai       1457      Taichang 1620

                                                                                                    Tianshun 1464           Tianqi        1627

                                                                                                    Chenghua 1487           Chongzhen 1644

                                                                                                    Qing          1661      Daoguang      1850            Edo (Tokugawa)
                                                                                                    Shunzhi       1722      Xianfeng      1861
                                                                                                    Kangxi        1735      Tongzhi       1873      1868
                                                                                                    Yongzheng     1796      Guangxu       1908
                                                                                                    Qianlong      1821      Xuantong      1912                 Meiji
                                                                                                    Jiaqing
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