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conquered the settled regions and permaGreekāryan. nently established their sovereign power. Military Victory
Minyans were the first Greekāryan people
who violently intruded into Greece. Achaeans were the Greekāryan militarised people who descended down from the regions of the Danube Circa 1500 B. C. with long swords, round shields and brooches. They, by sheer military supremacy, made themselves the masters of Greek Mainland and the Cyclades in the twelfth century B. C. These people were organised in genos, a clan, inhabiting villages. More important than both was gathering of the people. This assembly was not yet distinguished as an institution from the Army. It was homogeneous society in times of peace and war. It comes very near to Samgrāmmic Gaņa. All these institutions were derived from the old Āryan gatherings in good old days of Āryan fore-fathers.87 This historical description of the Greekāryan foreign invaders of Grete and Mainland singularly exhibits the historical persistence of the institutions of the original Aryan Gaņa, ever armed and pursuing collective military activities. Yajña is the collective activity of the Gana and, in military contexts, is the military activity of the invaders. Greekāryans carried on their Yajñic military activities in the same manner as their forefathers did. Roman Gens and their military activities were modelled on the Greek pattern.
We find the established power of the Kassites in sou. thern Mesopotamia, of Hittites in Anatolia and of Hurrians in
Upper Mesopotamia in the first of the second Asiāryans
yang millennium B. C. These peoples of the Military
mountains had descended down from south Activities
Russian Steppes to Western Asia. They had dominant noble upper class.88 They were presided over by a chieftain. These mountainous people came like bar
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