The Aryans & the Vedic Age

- 1500 BCE- 500 BCE
- They were nomads
- Came from Central Asia & Europe
- Few cities & artifacts
- Historians got there information from writings called Vedas
- Fierce people who loved food and music
- Polytheistic
- They had two epics one was the Mahabharata which tells of warfare and religion , and Ramayana which teaches values of behavior
- Some tribes mixed and Mauryan Empire comes out