There are many theories about the
background of Veda people.
- Some hold that Veda people were Aryans who entered the Indian-sub-Continent on chariots and on horse-backs invading the Indian-sub-Continent. One could see in Veda description of the horses, the chariots, the weaponry the Veda people had.
- Others hold that it was not an invasion, it was a migration, and the native locals dispersed to barren lands and remote places vacating the green pastures for the invaders/immigrants, happily, while the natives were also agriculturists or animal tenders.
- Those who subscribe to this view admit that there was war, they name it "Battle of 10 Kings" while this name is not perhaps mentioned in Veda.
- Veda is full of words of war,battles, foes, enemies etc. And such words are almost in every chapter of the Yajurveda. So, the Veda people were warriors.
- Did they fight all these battles before invasion/migration to the Indian-sub-Continent? They provide no details.
There are other theories also, each has impossibilities of its own.
Neither Veda solves them nor the holders of such theories.
Since I hold the first view, there is no problem for me. Chariots may have been useful in Central Asia but they would not be useful in a land where there were thousands of rivers and rivulets (Punjab) and thick forests at that time. So most probably Aryans abandoned them when they came to India. Riding a horse is OK. Yes, like all people of that time, we can safely assume that Aryans had bows and arrows, axes, clubs, and probably bronze swords and daggers.
As for the Battle of Ten kings, it is known that most of the belligerents were tribes from North East or East, some of them Aryans. There was no fight with the indigenous people.
Sure, one of the four divisions of the Aryan society were the Kshatriyas (warriors). Which society had no warriors? Is it something strange to have warriors?
The Vedic people as well as the indigenous people were not into writing histories like the Egyptians or the Chinese. They were more into religion and philosophy.