HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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“Each [Aryan] tribe was led by a raja or chief. Aryan hymns, songs and poems depict the people as delighted in waging war and raiding each other’s herds of cattle. As a nomadic herding civilization the Aryans traded cattle as both food and a type of currency. After all, cattle proved to be a valuable food source providing milk, meat and butter. In fact, the Aryans considered the animal so sacred that eventually a ban was placed on eating meat” (Ancient India Stations, 8).What could you conclude from the excerpt?
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A) Aryans measured wealth in how much cattle one had.
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B) Aryans were a warring people who never lived in one place very long.
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Both A and B are correct.
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Indo-Aryan Migration (1800-1500 BCE) Foreigners from the north are believed to have migrated to India and settled in the Indus Valley and Ganges Plain from 1800-1500 BCE. The most prominent of these groups spoke Indo-European languages and were called Aryans, or “noble people” in the Sanskrit language.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Aryans, they argue, originated from India and then spread across large parts of Asia and Europe, helping set up the family of Indo-European languages that Europeans and Indians still speak today.
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