Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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nued to be expert mariners, great Sea-farers, well-experienced in international trade and courageous adventurers. They contributed most to the creation of the Minoan civilization,
The Minoan communities were self-sufficing. Agriculture produced sufficient for consumption and surplus for
supporting trade and industry. Internal Economic and Social Conditions trade got big stimulation. International of the Minoan trade increased the wealth of the people. Sociсty
Knossos was an extensive town of twostoreyed houses. This non-Greekāryan civilization was homogeneous. They were peaceful folk and possessed a higher culture than the Greekāryan. The Ægean Society was founded on the freedom and equality of sexes. Both sexes mixed freely in sport and public functions. They enjoyed open air life of peaceful character. Ethnically, they belonged to the Mediterranean stock as distinguished to the Nordic Stock“ which later brought violence and destruction to Greece and the Cyclade.
· The Minoan script has not been satisfactorily deciphered and we have not knowledge of the Minoan political society from the original sources. Lewis H. Morgan a sympathetic Āryan Scholar, who carried on intensive and vast researches about the nature of ancient society, has given the results in his monumental book 'Ancient Society'. His researches are the foundations of the Marxian theories of Family, Private Property and the State. Morgan maintains that the Greek society was organised in small republics and the Greek citizens had the right to elect and depose their chiefs from the earliest period to the upper status of Barbarism. He believes the commencement of this status with the smelting and manufacturing of Iron. The status of civilization commenced with the use of a phonetic alphabet and the