Out of the Myth-Smoke

Category
Indian
Begin
-520
End
-320
Region
South Asia
Reference
Keay: India: A History, Chapter 4
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Around 520 B.C., Persians conquered the Indus Valley and made it a province of their empire." [National Geographic Almanac, p. 59] "Historically, the life of the Buddha also coincided with the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley during the rule of Darius I from about 517/516 BCE." [Wikipedia] "The Nanda dynasty ruled in northern India during the 4th century BCE. The Nandas overthrew the Shaishunaga dynasty in the Magadha region of eastern India, and expanded their empire to include a larger part of northern India. . . . Modern historians generally identify the ruler of the Gangaridai and the Prasii mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman accounts as a Nanda king. The chroniclers of Alexander the Great, who invaded north-western India during 327-325 BCE, characterize this king as a militarily powerful and prosperous ruler. The prospect of a war against this king led to a mutiny among the soldiers of Alexander, who had to retreat from India without waging a war against him." [Wikipedia] Dates for the life of the Buddha are 563-483 BC.

This period is linked to the following movies

Movie title
Genre
Released
Secrets of the Dead: Bones of the Buddha
Documentary
2013