MODULE 4 | Historical Backround of Hinduism

• Hinduism is considered as third largest religion in the world.
• Hinduism originate in India.
• Ganges is the name of Holy River in Hinduism.
• Aryans were the conquerors of the first civilizations of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa.
• Caste System was in Hinduism wherein people are subject to social class.
• Vedas is an oral text which contains the set of belief of the Aryan people.
• River is the meaning of the term Hindu.
• Sub-continent makes India known for because of the two mountains, Himalaya and Hindu Kush that separates it.
• Hindu is a Persian word for river.
• Arya Dharma is the other original Hindu word of Aryan Way.
• Indus River Valley is the river valley that gave birth to the Hindu civilization.
• 15% are practicing Hindu in India in the early days.
• The Caste System in India, where people are subject to social stratification based on their ethnicity and social class.
• Aryans were nomadic, they had no temples.
• The sun, the moon and storms, are personified in reference to the pantheon of gods and goddesses worshipped by the Aryans.
• Sacrifice was the principal form of worship to the Aryan gods.
• Hinduism was originally known as “Arya Dharma” or the “Aryan Way.”
• Hinduism is considered as the oldest and most complex of all world religions.
• Aryans were the migrants in Indus Valley that brought the songs in the

  valley and later on became Vedas?
• India and Nepal are countries where Hinduism is mostly practiced.