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The Aryans were semi-nomadic Nordic Whites, perhaps located originally on the steppes of southern Russia and Central Asia, who spoke the parent language of the various Indo-European languages.
Latin, Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, French, German, Latvian, English, Spanish, Russian etc. are all Indo-European languages; Indo-European, or more properly Proto-Indo-European (PIE), is the lost ancestral language from which those languages ultimately derive. The “Proto” indicates that the grammar and vocabulary of this long extinct language, probably spoken up until 3000 BC, are a hypothetical reconstruction by modern philologists. Just as Romance languages like Italian and Spanish derive from Latin, so Latin derives from PIE. |
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| is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism,and one of the 22 official languages of India.It is also declared as a Classical Language of India along with Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. |
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| is the predominant religious traditionof the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as Sanātana Dharma |
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| large body of texts originating in ancient India |
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| Mahabharata (mah-hah-BAH-ruh-tuh) |
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| is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India |
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| Ramayana (rah-mah-YAH-nuh) |
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| is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon |
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| is the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a legendary king of Ayodhya in ancient India. |
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| was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language |
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| is a deity worshipped across many traditions in Hinduism in a variety of perspectives |
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| janapadas (juh-nah-PAH-duhs) |
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| are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India, by the 6th century BC evolving into the sixteen classical Mahajanapadas . |
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| formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit "Great Countries") or regions in ancient India. |
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| Chandragupta Maurya (shawn-druh-GOOP-tuh MORE-yuh) |
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| sometimes known simply as Chandragupta (born c. 340 BCE, ruled c. 320 – 298 BCE, died about 298 BCE), was the founder of the Maurya Empire |
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| Mauryan Empire (MORE-yun) |
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| was a geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 B.C.E. |
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| popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC |
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| Artha-sastra (ahr-thuh-SHAHS-truh) |
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| is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy which identifies its author by the names Kautilya and Viṣhṇugupta,who are traditionally identified with Chāṇakya (c. 350–-283 BC),who was a professor at Taxila University and later the prime minister of the Maurya Empire. |
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| was an adviser and a prime minister[1] to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta (c. 340-293 BCE), and was the chief architect of his rise to power |
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| A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. |
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| was an Ancient Indian empire which existed approximately from 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent. Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty began the Classical Age in the Middle kingdoms of India. The capital of the Guptas was Pataliputra, present day Patna, in the north Indian state of Bihar. |
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| emporer to the Gupta empire |
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| is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city |
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| consisted of central Asian hordes in four cardinal directions. Northern Huna were the Black Huns, southern Huna were the Red Huns, Eastern Huna were the Celestial Huns, and Western Huna were the White Huns |
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like synification and syncritism!!!!!
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monsoon
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| the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter. |
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