Ganges river - wider and slower than the Indus Vedic people become more Indian After the Vedic people moved into the Ganges valley about 800 BC, they were further from West Asia and Central Asia and [...]
Vedic India: A horse-drawn chariot from the Oxus Treasure (British Museum, thanks to Mary Harrsch) About 1500 BC, a new group of people seem to have come to India from the [...]
Alexander the Great Did Alexander the Great really conquer India? In 326 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian part of northern India. Alexander was a Macedonian king. So he was an Indo-European, like the Persians. [...]
Indian government: Sanchi Stupa Northern Gateway (ca. 50 BC) Early Indian government Nobody knows what Indian government was like in the Harappan period. Probably they had a king over each city, the [...]
Indian games: A die found in excavations at a Harappan period site. Note that the six is not opposite the one. The first games in India People brought the idea [...]
Indian food: rice, chapatis, sauces, lentils What did people eat in ancient India? The earliest Indians, the Harappans, probably ate mainly wheat and rice, millet and sorghum, chickpeas and lentils. Often they ate fish, if they lived near the coast [...]
Cinnamon history: Cinnamon sticks Where does cinnamon come from? The best kind of cinnamon comes originally from an island south-east of India called Sri Lanka. It's the inner bark of a small [...]
An Indian man selling mangoes When people first came to India, about 60,000 BC, they found some plants that they already knew about, like figs and onions. There were also a lot of new [...]
Indian animals: A white cow Cows and bulls Cattle were probably the most important animals in India for people. They came to India originally from Central Asia. Indian people did [...]
Indian Monsoon - early Indian environment The monsoon was the big weather event In much of India, there was only one big weather event every year, and that was the monsoon. Most [...]
