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Aryans

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ARYANS

BY:ASIA WILLIAMSON

WHO WHERE THE DRAVIDIAN?

  • The basic bisection of the Indian society is of Ayrans and Dravidians.
  • According to this Bisection,about 72% percent of Indians are Aryans and 28% are Dravidians.
  • The North Indians are the descendants of Aryan's and the South Indians are Dravidians.
The basic bisection of the Indian society is of Ayrans and Dravidians.According to this Bisection,about 72% percent of Indians are Aryans and 28% are Dravidians.The North Indians are the descendants of Aryan's and the South Indians are Dravidians.

WHERE WERE THE ARYANS FROM?

  • The original Aryan's are known as Proto-Indo European,"Primitive Aryans",they all believed to have originated from the Indus Valley/India.
  • From there they spread to the North present day Europe effecting the culture and language of people possessing Europe
  • Most present day European languages are derived from Proto-Aryans,and these languages are classified as Indo-European.

WHAT WERE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARYAN CIVILIZATION?

  • Felt superior to the people they conquered
  • Polytheistic
  • Nomadic warriors
  • The two main cities of this civilization were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
  • It is clear that this civilization covered a large area and had well-planned cities.

HOW WERE THE ARYANS POLITICALLY SETUP?

  • The Harappans and the Aryans had very distinct societies.
  • One of the distinctions about their cultures would be a caste system.
  • The Aryan castes were originally called varna, which translates to color but known as castes in English today.
  • The Aryans had a society based on four basic classes: priests, warriors, merchant/artisans, and laborers.

WHAT WAS THE ARYAN WRITING SYSTEM AND HOW DID IT AFFECT THEIR SOCIAL CLASSES?

  • Ancient India had two main scripts in which Indo-Aryan languages were written.
  • Kharoṣṭi, used in the northwest, is of Aramaic origin and is written from right to left.
  • Brāhmī, of North Semitic origin, is written from left to right and appears earliest on Aśokan inscriptions in areas other than the northwest.
  • Middle Indo-Aryan shows evidence of the influence of linguistically more advanced vernaculars on literary compositions.
  • The Old Indo-Aryan and Middle Indo-Aryan stages, then, present a picture of concurrent vernaculars with dialects