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s.no Century Period / Style Key events / Significance Familiar Structure Not Familiar Structure

✓ modern urban
1 3300 -1300 Indus Valley / development using Mohenjo-Daro Dockyard at Lothal

BCE Harappan buildings made of brick (Space were ships

Civilization baked to perfection. built and repaired)
Ancient ✓ Well-organized streets

History
and drainage systems.
✓ Seal Carvings or

stamping , use of metals
such as copper, bronze

2 1500-500 BCE Vedic / Indo Ramayana and

–Aryan ✓ Artistic expression and Temporary structures
Ancient Civilization abstract pottery design , Mahabharata such as wood , bamboo

History woodworks
✓ Samaveda – Indian Vaastu Shastra
Classical music and
dance

✓ Varna System

3 1 BCE – 3 Mauryan ✓ Rock –cut architecture
st
rd
CE (Century ) Art and ✓ Rise of Buddhism , Great Stupa at Sanchi. Sarnath Stupa, Uttar
Ashoka Pillars
Architecture Jainism Pradesh
Ancient ✓ Policy of Dhamma- Chaitya Halls (Rock built to honor the

History Kalinga war – dead kings)

destruction and shift to
Buddhist

✓ Pillars and stone
carvings of animals such

as elephants
✓ Temple Architecture