Tag: historiography: development in the west

The concept of using the time when Jesus lived has been universally accepted. It is B.C for referring to time before christ, that is say 1000 years BC means it occurred 1000 years before the birth of christ. Then the era after the demise of Jesus called AD(in Latin when translated, after the death of Christ.)Now we are living in 2020 AD.

" Rig Ved" is considered as the earliest composition of Sanskrit language.

Neighbouring Arabs, Iranians uttered "s" as "h" and called this land Hindu. Greeks pronounced this name as Indus. Sindhu is the name of the Indus River, mentioned in the Rig-Veda, one of the oldest Indo-European texts, composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent roughly between 1700-1100 BC.

The Prakrits are any of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages formerly used in India during the ancient times.

Gunpowder plot was the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Kastesby, together with his four co conspirators- Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James's refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics.

Vikram era was started in 58 BCE. It is associated with famous Gupta king, Chandragupta II. Chandragupta II founded it as a mark of victory over the Shakas and assumed the title of Vikramaditya.