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Middle kingdoms of Pakistan

Timeline and cultural period	Greater Indus Valley (Punjab - Sapta Sindhu)	Indus Plain		Baluchistan	Northern and Northwestern Pakistan
		Upper Indus Plain	Lower Indus Plain
IRON AGE
Culture	Late Vedic Period (Painted Grey Ware culture, Northern Black Polished Ware)		Late Vedic Period (Sindhu-Sauvīra)	Pre-history	Late Vedic Period
6th century BCE	Madra, Kekeya, Trigarta, Yaudheya, Sivi, Kuru (Puru clans)		(Achaeminid conquests)		Gandhara, Kamboja
Culture	Persian and Greek influences	"Second Urbanisation^{[broken anchor]}" Rise of Shramana movements Jainism - Buddhism - Yoga	Achaemenid period
5th century BCE	Pre-history		Hindush	Gedrosia, Arachosia	Gandāra, Sattagydia
4th century BCE	(Greek conquests)
HISTORICAL AGE
Culture	Spread of Buddhism
3rd century BCE	Maurya Empire			Greek influence
Culture	Preclassical Hinduism (ca. CE 200 - 300) - "Hindu Synthesis"			Seleucid–Mauryan influence	Development of Mahayana and Vajrayana in Gandhara and Oddiyana
2nd century BCE	Indo-Greek Kingdom
1st century BCE
1st century CE	Indo-Scythians Indo-Parthians			Indo-Parthians (Paratarajas)
2nd century CE	Kushan Empire
3rd century CE	Indo-Parthians (Apracharajas)		Sasanian Hind		Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
4th century CE	Kidarites				Little Kushans
5th century CE	Alchon Huns			Hephthalite Empire
6th century CE	Nezak Huns Turk Shahis
Culture	Late-Classical Hinduism (ca. CE 650-1100), Zoroastrian influence, Spread of Islam
7th century CE	Indo-Sassanids, Arab Caliphates
8th century CE	Turk Shahis, Taank Kingdom
9th century CE	Hindu Shahis		Habbari dynasty	Saffarids
10th century CE	Ghaznavids
Sources for the table Sources Ahsan, Aitzaz (1996), The Indus saga and the making of Pakistan, Oxford University Press Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press Hiltebeitel, Alf (2002), Hinduism. In: Joseph Kitagawa, "The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture", Routledge Khan, Sohail Ahmad (1998), Ancient, Medieval & Recent History and Coins of Pakistan, Leo books Michaels, Axel (2004), Hinduism. Past and present, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press Samuel, Geoffrey (2010), The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge University Press