WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As the earliest Indus Valley cities were fading around 1500 B.C., a group of people known as the Vedic Aryans were arriving. They crossed into India through the Hindu Kush Mountains. Their migration took place over hundreds of years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Around 1600 BCE, about 500 years after the ancient Indus River Valley civilization fell, historians believe that nomadic Indo-Aryan people migrated into northern India. These Indo-Aryans were originally hunters and herders from Central Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aryan migration thesis is that the Indus Valley groups calling themselves Aryans (noble ones) migrated into the subcontinent and became the dominant cultural force.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -They were inhabited by Dravidians, indigenous Indians. However, around four thousand years ago, the Indus Valley Civilization was in decline, and a new people, the Aryans, moved in. Historians debate over whether this migration took place as a violent conquest or a slow transition.

Detailed explanation-6: -Aryans. A nomadic, Indo-European tribe called the Aryans suddenly overwhelmed and conquered the Indus Valley Civilization.