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It has been hypothesized that the Toba supereruption about 74,000 years ago destroyed much of India's central forests, covering it with a layer of volcanic ash, and may have brought humans worldwide to a state of near-extinction by suddenly plunging the planet into an ice-age that could have lasted for up to 1,800 years. [4]
During the first millennium, the sea routes to India were controlled by the Indians and Ethiopians that became the maritime trading power of the Red Sea. Indian merchants involved in spice trade took Indian cuisine to Southeast Asia, where spice mixtures and curries became popular with the native inhabitants. [133]
Longyearbyen founded 1906 and continuously inhabited except for World War II. [116] Indian Ocean: Mauritius: 1638: Vieux Grand Port: First settled by Dutch under Cornelius Gooyer. [117] Indian Ocean: Réunion: 1642: Settled 1642 by a dozen deported French mutineers from Madagascar, who were returned to France several years later.
India successfully launches its first mission to the moon, the uncrewed lunar probe Chandrayaan-1. [59] 26–29 November: The 2008 Mumbai attacks (often called the 26/11 attacks) kill 174 people, including 9 of the 10 terrorists from Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan. India decides not to attack Pakistan in ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; [21] [22] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From is a 2018 nonfiction book written by Indian journalist Tony Joseph, [1] [2] [3] that focuses on the ancestors of people living in South Asia today. [4] [5] Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past [6] —when anatomically modern humans first made their way from Africa into the ...
In ancient Greek geography, the basin of the Indus River, was on the extreme eastern fringe of the known world.. The Greek geographer Herodotus (5th century BC) describes the land as India, calling it ἡ Ἰνδική χώρη (Roman transliteration: hē Indikē chōrē, meaning "the Indus land"), after Hinduš, the Old Persian name for the satrapy of Punjab in the Achaemenid Empire.
Indians who inhabited the district between the Indus and the Hydraotes and the continental region beyond, which ends at the river Ganges, declared that Dionysus was the son of the river Indus and that Dionysus of Thebes was his disciple. [16] Phylarchus wrote that Dionysus was the first to bring two bulls, named Apis and Osiris, from