WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and ploughs enabled the Indo Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western Ganges Plain. This agricultural expansion led to an increase in trade and competition for resources, and many of the old tribes coalesced to form larger political units.

Detailed explanation-2: -How was it possible for the Aryans to spread their influence over the Indus and Ganges river valleys so successfully? The Aryans’ horse-drawn chariots scared the local people and helped Aryans gain power.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The ancient Aryans were a group of people who were originally from central Asia. Three thousand years ago, these Aryans settled in India, where they established the language of Vedic Sanskrit, founded the Vedic religion, and established a caste system of hierarchical classes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Another group of the Indo-Aryans migrated further westward and founded the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria; (c. 1500–1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic people. Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin.