Quote Originally Posted by Randarkmaan
I thought the Aryans were a people who invaded and the destroyed the Indus valley civilization? They spoke Sanskrit ,introducing the indo-european language to India, rather than the older Dravidian languages, they brought the Hindu Gods and their Vedic poetry and they introduced the caste system (with themselves mostly as the highest castes the brahmin and the khsatrya, the original Dravidian population as the lower castes). Something like this is what I've read in a quite good series of history books (Grimberg's "världshistoria"), also with "aryan" meaning "noble" in Sanskrit it's quite likely they referred to themselves as nobles compared to the original inhabitants whom were branded as "infidels and non-believers".



But don't the Armenians call their country "Hayastan"?

Where did the Aryans come from that destroyed the Indus valley civilization? Also Sanskrit was the language used by early linguists when they saw similarities between it and english.

Yes Armenians call their country Hayastan. Germans call their country Deuchland, but it is also refered to as Alemania, and Germania. Alemania comming from the the German Aleman tribe, and Germania from I think Herman or in latin Arminius (connection with the armenian name Armen)

Armenia is as "Armenian" as is "Hayastan" such as Alemania is as German as Deuchland.