GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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An invasion of the Huns from Central Asia
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A Revolt of the Peasantry
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A Plague
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Chandra Gupta III gave up his wealth to live in a monastery
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Alchon invasion of the Indian subcontinent eradicated the Kidarite Huns who had preceded them by about a century, and contributed to the fall of the Gupta Empire, in a sense bringing an end to Classical India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gupta empire ended with the invasion of the White Huns, a nomadic tribe of people from central Asia, at the end of the fifth century CE. Until the sixteenth century, there was no unifying empire; regional political kingdoms ruled India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hunas were ultimately defeated by a coalition of Indian princes that included an Indian king Yasodharman and the Gupta emperor, Narasimhagupta. They defeated a Huna army and their ruler Mihirakula in 528 CE and drove them out of India.
Detailed explanation-4: -These Huns were eventually wiped up by the Romans in 401 after they began plundering the territory.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hun Invasions and the Fall of the Gupta Empire An invasion by Hunas destroyed much of the Gupta civilization by 550 and the empire finally collapsed completely in 647.