Which country has an older history? India or England?

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Uncle Johnny, that's precisely the answer I was after.

Answer 1

India

Answer 2

India indeed has a culture that goes back thousands of years even more than 7000 years. It was well ahead of it times till the middle ages in terms of science religion litrature and all the other fields that we measure a developed country with. Here are a few examples 1. The only dimond mines in the world until the 18th century were in India .. and hence it was known for its richness , often being referred to as "Sone ki Chidiya" or the bird of gold, thus attracting a number of traders and ultimatly colonisers from Europe. 2. The first recorded plastic surgery was performed in India by a surgeon by the name of "Charkha" 3. The Digit 0 was discovered in India 4. Indians were the first to calculate the distance between Earth and Moon and that too accuratly. 5. Indian wrote the biggest and the most read about epics ever read .. the Ramayana and Mahabaharta 6. Indians were far ahead in matellurgy from the rest of the world .. the ashoka iron pillar is a proof of this. 7. Indians gave birth to a number of religions a. Hinduism b. Sikhism c. Jainism d. Buddhism 8. It has been proved now that the pythogorus theorem was invented in India a long time before pythogorus did. 9. The Indians gave the world the pie symbol and its true significance. So you see that India was a really great country .. rich culturally and wealth wise. The reason for this wealth was the indian education system that existed in ancient India, which is known as the "Gurukul system". When the britishers came and even before that when the muslims invaded india the y began to degrade this education system and loot away the richness of india. So ultimatly after a continuous rule by the british for 200 years the great country of India was left drained both culturally and economically. Not for long though as today once again India is again being seen as the future of the world both economically and intellectually.

Answer 3

Are you talking about written history ? All the land was there at
the same time. India was probably inhabited before England
because its closer to Africa where, according to science, we
originated.

Answer 4

Hi,,, personally, i would say that India would probably have as older history....

good luck

Answer 5

India-right!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Stone Age rock shelters with paintings at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh are the earliest known traces of human life in India. The first known permanent settlements appeared over 9,000 years ago, and gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilization, dating back to 3300 BCE in western India. It was followed by the Vedic Civilization which laid the foundations of Hinduism and other cultural aspects of early Indian society. From around 550 BCE, many independent kingdoms and republics known as the Mahajanapadas were established across the country.



Archaeological evidence has shown that England was inhabited by humans long before the rest of the British isles because of its more hospitable climate. Tacitus wrote that there was no great difference between these people and and those in northern Gaul.

[edit] Roman conquest of Britain

Main article: Roman conquest of Britain

By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Like other regions on the edge of the empire, Britain had long enjoyed trading links with the Romans and their economic and cultural influence was a significant part of the British late pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in the south.

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An Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo
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An Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Main article: History of Anglo-Saxon England

The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early mediaeval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066.

Fragmentary knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England in the 5th and 6th centuries comes from the British writer Gildas (6th century) the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (a history of the English people begun in the 9th century), saints' lives, poetry, archaeological findings, and place-name studies.

The dominant themes of the 7th to 10th centuries were the spread of Christianity and the political unification of England. Christianity is thought to have came from two directions — Rome from the south and Scotland and Ireland to the north and west.

Heptarchy is a term used to refer to the existence (as believed) of the seven petty kingdoms which eventually merged to become the Kingdom of England during the early 10th century. These included Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex.

The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms tended to coalesce by means of warfare. As early as the time of Ethelbert of Kent, one king could be recognised as Bretwalda, or "Lord of Britain". Generally speaking, the title fell in the 7th century to the kings of Northumbria, in the 8th to those of Mercia, and finally, in the 9th, to Egbert of Wessex, who in 825 defeated the Mercians at Ellendun. In the next century his family came to rule all England.

The empire built by the Maurya dynasty under Emperor Ashoka united most of modern South Asia except the Tamil kingdoms in the south. From 180 BCE, a series of invasions from Central Asia followed including the Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, Indo-Parthians and Kushans in the northwestern Indian Subcontinent. From the third century CE, the Gupta dynasty oversaw the period referred to as ancient India's "Golden Age." While the north had larger, fewer kingdoms, in the south there were several dynasties such as the Chalukyas, Cholas, Pallavas and Pandyas, overlapping in time and space. Science, engineering, art, literature, astronomy, and philosophy flourished under the patronage of these kings.

Answer 7

there's an old saying,,just because its older it dosen't make it better,,maybe indian history is older but in no way as interesting as british history,