HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Indian leaders were considered to be gods, and they established Hinduism.
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Aryan invaders brought their religion to India, and it combined with other local religions to form Hinduism.
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A prophet lived among the people and taught them the basic beliefs of Hinduism.
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The first people to settle in India had a creation story that developed into Hinduism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the early Aryan religion grow into Hinduism? Aryan prayers were passed down for generations. As Aryan culture mixed with India’s existing cultures, new ideas and beliefs became part of the Vedas. The blending became Hinduism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Gupta empire-from about 320 to 550 CE-emperors used Hinduism as a unifying religion and helped popularize it by promoting educational systems that included Hindu teachings; they also gave land to brahmins. The Gupta emperors helped make Hinduism the most popular religion on the Indian subcontinent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hinduism developed with a group of tribes who referred to themselves as Aryans. Disputes surround where they originated from; some say they were already present in western India, others that they came from Central Asia, or further west.