WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Aryans first came into the Indus Valley, but they were different from the earlier peoples along that river. They didn’t live in cities. They were nomadic herders, moving from place to place to find grass for their cattle. They were fierce fighters who had bronze weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1500 BCE, the Aryans, who probably came from central Asia, were already crossing the Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains and settling in the Indus Valley.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-European language, the word Aryan refers to “the noble ones.” The Aryans migrated from their ancestral home near the Caucusus mountains, north of the Black Sea in Central Asia (near modern day Russia). They entered the Indus Valley through the fabled Khyber Pass.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.