people&events_jg

people&events: In the later Vedic Age, a number of small kingdoms or city states had covered the subcontinent, many mentioned in Vedic, early Buddhist and Jaina literature as far back as 1000 BCE. By 500 BCE, sixteen monarchies and "republics" known as the [|Mahajanapadas] — [|Kasi], [|Kosala] , [|Anga] ,[|Magadha] , [|Vajji] (or Vriji), [|Malla] , [|Chedi] , [|Vatsa] (or Vamsa), [|Kuru] , [|Panchala] , [|Matsya] (or Machcha),[|Surasena] , [|Assaka] , [|Avanti] , [|Gandhara] , and <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Kamboja] — stretched across the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Indo-Gangetic Plain] from modern-day <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Afghanistan] to <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Bengal] and <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Maharastra]. This period saw the second major rise of urbanism in India after the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Indus Valley Civilization].
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