Aryans are an ancient group of people that migrated into northern India from Central Asia or Europe thousands of years ago. Their language, culture, and religion had a major influence on the people (called Dravidians) already living in the region. Their language created a whole family of languages that survive today called Indo-European that includes almost all of the languages of Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
The Nazis and Hitler made some convoluted claim to be descendants of these Aryans, but this connected is based on myth and pseudo-science. The Germans have no more of a direct link to the Aryans than hundreds of other groups in Europe or Asia.
2007-05-07 08:13:37
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answered by Matt H 2
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The home of the Aryan people was propably in southern Russia 5200 B.C. It's comperativly a young "race" (this term should not be used).
They expanded in the first three phases southward up to the Caucasus and Persia. The Hetits were the first speaking an Aryan language. Maybe they were assimilated by the nomadic Aryans. Then the tribe parted for the first time: One part invaded Northern India (Hindustan), the other part went westward up to Eastern & Southern Europe and Greece (Dorian migration). In the last movement the remaining part of the Aryan people moved westward up to Northern and Central Europe.
The Nazis saw in the Germanic race the epitome of the Aryan people, because it was the last part of the Aryan people to settle down. According to Hitler, the Germanics preserved for the longest time the authentic Aryan characteristics. He saw Indians, Meders and Persians as creators, and the youngest descendants, the Germanics, as the bearers of the Aryan culture.
That Aryans were all blonde, had blue eyes etc. is still today controversial.
I hope I could help you.
2007-05-07 10:00:33
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answered by Lemmy Caution 3
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The "Aryan race" is a concept in European culture that was influential in the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It derives from the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendents up to the present day constitute a distinctive race. In its best-known incarnation, under Nazism, it was argued that the earliest Aryans were identical to Nordic people.
2007-05-07 10:40:33
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answered by ? 7
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Aryan people aren't from a certain place, its just a term used to describe blonde haired, blue eyed people. Hitler used the term a lot suring WW2, because his 'perfect race' was Aryan.
2007-05-07 08:08:52
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answered by arwen_1984 3
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Unfortunately, the answers so far here seem to be somewhat off.
The word Aryans refers to the Indo-Europeans, a term that refers to the speakers of a language that is the parent of most European and numerous Asian languages today. Their homeland is still in doubt, but it is considered to be somewhere in eastern Europe.
2007-05-07 08:40:47
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answered by Fred 7
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There is nothing such as "the Aryans"! This was just a term used by racists particularly Hitler in reference to the so called "Perfect race". In reality, we can't define human beings by different races! It makes no sense.
2007-05-07 08:12:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Aryans are caucasian people, of non Jewish origin, usually
with a Nordic background.
As you probably realise from this, they are not from one specific country.
The Germans adopted this, as their ideal role model, during the second world war. e.g. White skinned, blond haired.
2007-05-07 08:18:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Its a race of people.
Persians are Arians.
That is all I know :D
2007-05-07 11:41:30
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answered by Samantha 6
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