The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. It is today the basis of affirmative action programmes in India. The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, …

Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions of celestial objects. Astrology has been practiced since at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine …

The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BCE. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BCE when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this period, the first known written reference to Japan was recorded in the Chinese Book of …

Ancient seafaring Maritime prehistory. There are indications as stone tools and traces left on a rhinoceros skeleton that suggest early hominids crossed the sea and colonized the Philippine island of Luzon in a time frame as early as 777,000 to 631,000 years ago.. The earliest sea crossings by anatomically modern humans occurred around 53,000 to 65,000 years ago, when …

The Indian subcontinent, or simply the subcontinent, is a physiographical region in Southern Asia.It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.Geopolitically, it includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The terms Indian subcontinent and South Asia are often used …

The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedicism, Vedism or ancient Hinduism), and subsequently Brahmanism (also spelled as Brahminism), constituted the religious ideas and practices among some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of northwest India (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) of ancient India during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).

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The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is a artificially synthesized period by highly mentally stimulated Western historians in the 19th century.According to them the period includes the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (ca. 1300–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, …

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The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity.It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic), and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic).The concept has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, but also, by analogy, to other parts of the Old World.. The duration of the Iron Age varies depending on …