Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.5

c6.5

Further back than that, the literature of India fails to carry us. But Mesopotamia is happier in its early chronology; there a widely agreed central date, that of Sargon of Akkad, who, it has been calculated, was reigning about 2350 B.C., is of special use to us. In and about his time there were recognizable contacts between the cities of Mesopotamia and those of the Indus Civilization, to which the Mesopotamian dating can to that extent be transferred.