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ARYANS

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                 The most important, most discuss and most controversial part of the Indian history were ARYANS. Who were Aryans? Are they invaded / migrated to India? The term "Aryan" has had a history filled with controversy. The source of the English word ‘Aryan’ comes from the Sanskrit word 'arya'. The Sanskrit term has a similar with the Iranian word 'arya', means the noble man in both languages.                                                                                                                  When historians discuss about Aryans, they mention them as a ‘race’, which invaded / migrated from Persia to India, which followed the end of the Indus valley civilization. But some experts have different views. According to Professor Max Muller who was philologist and expert in Vedic studies. This was what he said in his lectures on the Science of Language. "In ar or ara, I recognize one of the oldest names of the earth, as the ploughed land,

ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILIZATION

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Indus Valley Civilization The earliest imprints of human activities in India go back to the Paleolithic Age, roughly between 400,000 and 200,000 B.C. Stone implements and cave paintings from this period have been discovered in many parts of the South Asia. Evidence of domestication of animals, the adoption of agriculture, permanent village settlements, and wheel-turned pottery dating from the middle of the sixth millennium B.C. has been found in the foothills of Sindh and Baluchistan (or Balochistan in current Pakistani usage), both in present-day Pakistan. One of the first great civilizations--with a writing system, urban centers, and a diversified social and economic system--appeared around 3,000 B.C. along the Indus River valley in Punjab and Sindh. It covered more than 800,000 square kilometers, from the borders of Baluchistan to the deserts of Rajasthan, from the Himalayan foothills to the southern tip of Gujarat. The remnants of two major cities--Mohenjo-daro and Harappa--