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== India ==
 
== India ==
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Little information survives concerning the history of ancient India. By 3500 B.C. there were scattered farming communities in the alluvial basin of what is now the Indus River; and during the next 1000 years (what is called the Early Indus Period) walled towns appeared.
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Little information survives concerning the history of ancient India. There was a massive immigration into the country around 3000 B.C. by people who called themselves "nobles" or "Aryans", a term we explained in the prior lecture.  These immigrants spoke an Indo-European language which formed the basis for Sanskrit, which is the standard ancient language of India just as Latin is the standard ancient language of Europe.  Yet while Latin is a dead language today, Sanskrit is still an official language in India.  The scriptures of Hinduism are written in Sanskrit.  The most sacred of these scripts form the [[Vedas]] and [[Upanishads]], which are considered to have the most authority, importance, and antiquity.
    
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