Uncontacted contemporaries · 400 overlapping years

Mycenaean Greece Vedic Civilization

For 400 years — from 1,500 BCE to 1,100 BCE — both civilizations existed simultaneously. Neither this dataset nor the historical record shows any documented trade, war, or diplomatic contact between them.

1,600 BCE 500 BCE

Mycenaean Greece

1,600 BCE–1,100 BCE

Vedic Civilization

1,500 BCE–500 BCE

↑ Overlap begins, 1,500 BCE

Mycenaean Greece

Greek mainland and Aegean

Warrior-aristocracy palace states whose Linear B tablets are the earliest deciphered form of Greek.

Vedic Civilization

Northern Indian subcontinent

A pastoral and agrarian Iron Age culture that transmitted the Vedas orally for centuries before any writing system recorded them.

Traits both developed independently

With no documented contact, any shared trait below represents independent development rather than transmission from one to the other.

Bronze metallurgy Standing army

Mycenaean Greece only

Monumental architecture
Long-distance trade
Urban planning
Seafaring

Vedic Civilization only

Iron metallurgy
Irrigation agriculture
Astronomical record-keeping