"The distinction between Aryan and un-Aryan on which so much has been built seems on the mass of evidence to indicate a cultural rather than a racial difference."
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Aryan
1700 – 1100
Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian: *arya) was originally an used by the prehistoric speakers of the . In the Indian subcontinent, the term appears in the sacred texts of the Vedic practitioners whose ancestors migrated from parts of what is now Iran to the Indus River valley about 1500 BC. In the ' scriptures, ancient Iranian peoples similarly used the term Airya.
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