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**Persian Horseman** · 08-01-2006, 15:16

well, according to my history teacher when i was a kid, when the persians all migrated from somewhere in russia, they were originally from the Aryan race. the migrating group broke into 3.

1 went to germany, and so the WWII fuss about the aryan race
another went to modern day iran. (persia)
the last group settled in northern india.

the ones who settled in iran again broke into 3 sub-groups.

1 - Medes? (not sure of the english. in Farsi/Persian they were called the MAAD i think) they were quite small. i think they had a few fights with the babylonians or the assyrians. not too sure. too long ago.

2 - the Fars who set up the famous Achaemenid empire. they took over the medes people above. also its because of them that the iranian language is called Farsi i believe. (in farsi they r called Hakhamaneshid)

3 - the last group where the Pars people, who set up the Parthian kingdom. (in farsi they r called the Ashkanian, name after their first king, Ask, or Arashk i think)

so basically each group got their turn in different times. after all that, the sassanids (Sasanian) took over, and they were all just called persian. not much more distinction between the 3 groups from what i remember.

hope that provides some info.

**Elthore** · 08-01-2006, 17:25

some good info there, but i call bogus on aryans in germany, any sources?

edit:not trying to sound aggressive, i've just heard numerous times that the claims of aryans in germany weren't true. I don't have any evidence to back it up either however. Just want some clarification from someone who knows

**Dayve** · 08-01-2006, 17:28

M2TW will have shiney graphics and nothing else, just like RTW, because CA have crossed over to the dark side.

**Persian Horseman** · 08-02-2006, 00:17

well, wasnt that hitler dude going on and on about the aryan race being superior? blah blah

plus, the english and the russians used the excuse to just help themselves and attack iran during that time, even though it was neutral. the allies said that iran could not really be neutral cuz they were of the same race or sth, so they just attacked in order to open a way to supply russia thru iran and get lots of OIL!

anyway, germans and iranians dont even look like each other if u ask me. so i dont know. the migration was supposed to have happened few thousand years ago. who knows. maybe the history books i read were wrong, but im just telling u what i read.

u can never really be 100% sure with history.
oh yeah, and im not german just to make things clear.

**Foot** · 08-02-2006, 00:30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan

But to paraphrase I might add that aryan was used as an alternative word to indo-european and its use to describe a race is erroneous designation by certian ethnolinguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Indo-european describes a language and so indo-europeans are those people who speak indo-european languages - but race is a whole other matter.

Foot

**Persian Horseman** · 08-02-2006, 01:35

well, tat hitler guy was crazy to some degree

i gotta go out now. will write a reply tonite

**Justiciar** · 08-02-2006, 02:35

I recall hearing somewhere that Hitler never acctually used the word Aryan in relation to his Nordic Master Race. No idea where I heard that from though.