WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Indo-Europeans who migrated south into India ____ what were they called?
A
sanskrit
B
raja
C
aryan
D
caste
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Proto-Indo-Aryan split off around 1800–1600 BCE from the Iranians, moved south through the Bactria-Margiana Culture, south of the Andronovo culture, borrowing some of their distinctive religious beliefs and practices from the BMAC, and then migrated further south into the Levant and north-western India.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. (in Nazi ideology) a Caucasian of non-Jewish descent, esp of the Nordic type. a member of any of the peoples supposedly descended from the Indo-Europeans, esp a speaker of an Iranian or Indic language in ancient times. adjective. of, relating to, or characteristic of an Aryan or Aryans.

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