Table of Contents
- 1 Did Aryans destroy Indus Valley Civilisation?
- 2 How did the Indus Valley Civilization collapse?
- 3 Who suggested that the destruction of the Indus Valley Civilization was due to change in the course of river Ghaggar?
- 4 Where did the Indus Valley civilization begin and end?
- 5 When did the Indo-Aryan invasion of India begin?
- 6 What happened to the urban system in the Indus region?
Did Aryans destroy Indus Valley Civilisation?
Aryans did not invade India or destroy the Indus Valley Civilisation.
How did the Indus Valley Civilization collapse?
Many historians believe the Indus civilisation collapsed because of changes to the geography and climate of the area. Movements in the Earth’s crust (the outside layer) might have caused the Indus river to flood and change its direction.
How did the invasion of the Aryans change the Indus Valley?
Aryan tribes spread out across the Indus Valley region. They warred against local, non-Aryan people, and they settled in areas that provided them with pasture for their animals. They grouped in villages and built homes of bamboo or light wood – homes without statues or art. They began growing crops.
Who suggested that the destruction of the Indus Valley Civilization was due to change in the course of river Ghaggar?
GF Hales
Why Indus Valley Civilization Declined?
| Thinkers | Opinion |
|---|---|
| Marshal, SR Rao, Maickey | Flood |
| GF Hales | The destruction due to change in the course of river Ghaggar. |
| Wheeler | In his Ancient India mentioned that the climatic, economic and political civilisation and argued that the decline was actually due to large-scale destruction. |
Where did the Indus Valley civilization begin and end?
The civilization, which arose in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river system (the Ghaggar and Hakra rivers are now defunct), spread out over a large area of modern Pakistan, eastern Afghanistan, and northwestern India.
Did the Aryan civilization migrate to the subcontinent?
A more recent and controversial theory put forward by such scholars as American Jim G. Shaffer and Indian B.B. Lal suggests that Aryan civilization did not migrate to the subcontinent but was an original ethnic and linguistic element of pre-Vedic India.
When did the Indo-Aryan invasion of India begin?
One hypothesis is that between about 2000 and 1500 bce not an invasion but a continuing spread of Indo-Aryan speakers occurred, carrying them much farther into India, to the east and south, and coinciding with a growing cultural interaction between the native population and the new arrivals.
What happened to the urban system in the Indus region?
The collapse of the urban system does not necessarily imply a complete breakdown in the lifestyle of the population in all parts of the Indus region, but it seems to have involved the end of whatever system of social and political control had preceded it.