Ancient India: A Complete Overview | The Ancient World (Part 2 of 5)

This video goes through the Ancient history of India and the Subcontinent. It is an overview of the Indus Valley Civilization, or Harappan, the Indo-Aryans and Vedic Age, including social structures, daily life, and the Mauryan Empire. It also covers the religious development of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Indian culture, like literature and architecture.

NOTE: The first minute or so of Chapter 3 is reused from one of our previous videos, in case it seems familiar

The Ancient World Series
Part 2: Ancient India: This video
Part 4: Ancient Greece: To be finished
Part 5: Ancient Rome: To be finished

Welcome to The Ancient World series! This series is meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World documentary, this series is a perfect next step. The videos are standalone, but presented in a chronological fashion. The series will be divided into 5 videos about the Ancient Period, which we call Phase 1. Upcoming videos in the current Phase will be placed at the end of these videos. Once these 5 videos are completed, we will move onto Phase 2, but this project will be considered completed, and compiled into ONE video containing all 5 parts.

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0:00 Indus Valley Civilization
6:39 Indo-Aryan Society
14:50 Ancient Indian Religions
23:00 Ancient Indian Culture

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The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Hidden Wonders by Kevin MacLeod

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[MadeInHistory]

Do you believe the Indo-Aryans migrated to India or did they originate there?

[akhileshwarjha]

Women of ancient india studied scriptures, to name few famous female scholars like Gargi, Maitreyi, Madalsa and Bharti and their famous discourses and arguments with famous Scholars like yagwalkya, Mandan is well illustrated. Best wishes

[sealofapoorval]

0:13 you say the Indian subcontinent yet you only show the modern natuon of India without even showing the disputed territory. Indian subcontinent, especially in the context of ancient India should include modern countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Otherwise, good video

[JohnLee-vius]

I love India. Great people with amazing history.

[RK-fiek]

In Kerala "Marumakathayam" existed matriarchal society in kingdom of Travancore and in kingdom of Cochin.

[amandeep]

20:20 Buddhism didn't reject Varna system completed. Buddhism also has Verna system. The sequence is Kshatriya, Brahmin, Vaishya, Shudra. So, Budhism keeps Kshatriyas on top and Hinduism keeps Brahmins on top.

[abhinandanbanerjee]

Sorry to say... But women were not kept away from vedas. Gargi and maitreyi both find themselves mentioned in Upanishads discussing meta physics with yagyavalka... Not to mention the atharvaveda was partly created by a woman

[hiruruidas]

Watching this ancient history documentary felt like a time machine experience. The accuracy and detail are superb!

[rajendradangi]

Varna does not always mean colour. For example Sanskrit alphabet is called varna-mala where is colour here. Every Sanskrit word has numerous meaning. Meaning depend on context.

[indranidutta]

The sculpture of shiva / Pashupatinath in meditative posture is also from this period. So not just a fertility god but yoga and adiyogi are very much a part of this culture already

[caliburn]

9:43 The Sanskrit term varna is derived from the root vṛ, meaning "to cover, to envelop, count, classify consider, describe or choose"

[accountforcommenting]

You should include Pakistan, Bangladesh will talking about Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka can also be added.
Edit: Territory conquered by Ashoka has nothing to do with modern India, I included sri lanka because of shared cultural identity and chola empire conquering sri lanka.

As a south Indian for me, Chola empire Empire, no offense to Ashoka

[jyotikalita]

Hopeless History. This description has no fundamental basis and is constructed on biased western stereotyping.

[legendnaveendelu]

Yes people from India traveled to other parts of the world and made civilizations.

[hiruruidas]

This ancient history documentary offers a fresh perspective on events I've read about countless times. Truly enlightening!

[krpranjal]

MAHABHARAT is our history, its living evidences can be found easily and here 7:34 these all Janapadas actually are part of Mahabharat.

[thaskoobz]

This feels a coloniser’s view of ancient India…

[ramanandhmmanoharan]

The amount of miss informations in this video is unforgivably lot

[churitter]

In ancient Bharat, there was no Pakistan or Bangladesh which is the product of a religion . Strange but true.
Vedic culture and philosophy were given to humanity.
The word. Hindu does not exist in vedic literatures. This is a foreign terminology.
Interesting and rich history of Bharat .

[indranidutta]

As jallikattu proves the southern and northern cultures were already one composite culture with the Indus Valley