WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Aryan term used to describe India’s Dravidic speaking peoples; means “subject” or “inferior” people
A
dharma
B
vaishyas
C
dasas
D
vedas
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Aryans were fair skinned, tall, and spoke a different language from Dravidians who were dark, short and spoke Dravidian language. Recent excavations have proved that Aryans arrived in India much later (1500 BC) while Indian society has been divided into castes much before (around 7000 BC).

Detailed explanation-2: -In·do-Ar·y·an ˌin-dō-ˈer-ē-ən.-ˈär-yən. : a member of one of the peoples of the Indian subcontinent speaking an Indo-European language. : one of the early Indo-European invaders of southern Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced the Proto-Indo-Aryan language.

Detailed explanation-4: -The holy language of the Aryans who invaded the Indian subcontinent was Sanskrit. Many of the modern languages of northern India, such as Hindi and Bengali, evolved from Sanskrit.

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