SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which group of people migrated and settled into the ruins of the Harappan villages and developed the first known Bronze Age culture of India?
A
Buddhists
B
Han Chinese
C
Persians
D
Aryans
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Many scholars came to believe in an Indo-Aryan Migration theory stating that the Harappan culture was assimilated during a migration of the Aryan people into northwest India. Aryans in India: An early 20th-century depiction of Aryan people settling in agricultural villages in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harappans were among the first to develop a system of uniform weights and measures that conformed to a successive scale. The smallest division, approximately 1.6 mm, was marked on an ivory scale found in Lothal, a prominent Indus Valley city in the modern Indian state of Gujarat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Masson (1800–1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier, independent explorer and pioneering archaeologist and numismatist. He was the first European to discover the ruins of Harappa near Sahiwal in Punjab, now in Pakistan.

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