Visual Timeline: The Vedas

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3000 BCE: The Aryans - nomadic northerners from central Asia - possibly begin to migrate into the Indus Valley in an early phase of migration.
 
 
1500 BCE - 500 BCE: The Vedic Period in India after a greater migration of the Indo-Aryans from Central Asia
 
 
1500 BCE - 1100 BCE: The Rig Veda written, mentioning the god Rudra (Shiva) and goddess Tara (among others) for the first time.
 
 
1500 BCE - 500 BCE: Indian scholars of the so-called Vedic Period commit the Vedas to written form; basic tenets of Hinduism are established.
 
 
 
 
 
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