Arrange the following historical events in a chronological order:
(A) Punch-marked coins
(B) Rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka
(C) Accession Of Chandragupta Maurya
(D) Accession Of Kanishka
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (C), (D), (B)
(A) Punch-marked coins — c. 600-500 BCE. They belong to the same age as paddy transplantation, the growth of towns in the Ganga valley and the mahajanapadas.
(C) Accession of Chandragupta Maurya — c. 321 BCE. Chandragupta founded the Mauryan empire, a few years after Alexander’s invasion of the northwest (c. 327-325 BCE).
(D) Accession of Kanishka — c. 78 CE, a date historians still treat as uncertain. Kanishka was the best-known ruler of the Kushanas, who ruled over a vast kingdom from Central Asia to northwest India.
(B) Rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka — c. 500-600 CE, at the same time as the rise of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu, well after the Gupta age.
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