About 500BCE, the Aryans began to compose a body of texts called Vedas based on their traditional stories. Veda is a Sanskrit word that means knowledge. The Rig Veda is a collection of more than 1000 poems that survives to this day. The influence of these stories of the Aryan people on the subcontinent is why historians label the period of Indian history lasting from about 1500BCE to 322BCE as the Verdict Age. SORRY IT'S SO LONG