AGanga-Yamuna Doab
BVindhya Range
CSapta Sindhu
DDeccan Plateau
Answer:
C. Sapta Sindhu
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Aryan invasion
The people who spoke the Indo-European language, Sanskrit came to be known as Aryans. The first literary work in Sanskrit is the Rigveda.
About 3500 years ago, Aryans arrived at the Sapta Sindhu region in the north western part of India. The Sapta Sindhu region includes river Saraswathi together with river Sindhu and her tributaries Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej.
We get information regarding the life of the people in the Sapta Sindhu region from the Rigveda.
The main occupation of the Aryans was cattle rearing & farming and their means of income were cattle.
They followed a societal pattern of living in tribes. There were different tribal assemblies to assist the tribal heads known as Vidatha, Sabha and Samithi.
They fought battles for pastoral grounds and cattle- 'Gavishti'.
Society was stratified into priests, soldiers and common people, on the basis of occupation.
Aryans had system of nature worship. Their main deity was Lord Indra, along with other Gods like Agni, Varuna, Maruthi and Surya. They also undertook various rituals and special prayers for increasing their cattle wealth.
By B. C. E 1000, the Aryans started moving towards the Gangetic plain by clearing the forests iron tools. Later vedas, namely Atharvaveda, Samaveda and Yajurveda tell us about the life of the Aryans from 1000 to 600 B.C.E.
They began agriculture and settled life. The place where the nomadic people started to settle permenantly came to be known as Janapada.
The head of the tribe became the king. Kingship became hereditary. The farmers gave a part of their yield as tax to the king in return for protecting agricultural land- 'bali' and 'bhaga".