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Aryans - Coggle Diagram
Aryans
politics
Each tribe’s autocratic male ruler (“Raja” )
military conflict
Bharata was the most powerful tribe
Kings did not have unlimited power
innovation/technology
The Mahabharata
(World’s longest poem)
horse-drawn chariot racing and gambling
dice and chess
literature (about their gods + religion)
economics
grains like barley and wheat
Plows and the expansion of irrigated agriculture
increased the food supply and fostered population growth
culture
worshiped a pantheon of nature gods
Offered sacrifices
traditions of the indigenous peoples
tradition of historiography
fond of wine and music
priests had privileges as guardians of sacred knowledge
environment/geography
Many Aryans moved east into the Ganges Valley
Early Aryan migrants to India
More arrived, the Aryans expanded throughout northern India
adopted systems of farming, village structure
social
organized into tribes
class system; warriors, priests, and commoners
mixed their language with local people (“Sanskrit”)
Patriarchal family structure