ideology.[12] Under Nazi rule (1933–1945), the term applied to most
inhabitants of Germany excluding Jews, Roma, and Slavs such
as Czechs, Poles or Russians.[13][14] Those classified as 'non-Aryans,'
especially Jews,[15] were discriminated against before suffering
the systematic mass killing known as the Holocaust.[13] The atrocities
committed in the name of Aryanist supremacist ideologies have led
academics to generally avoid the term 'Aryan', which has been replaced
in most cases by 'Indo-Iranian', although the South Asian branch is still
known as 'Indo-Aryan'.[16]
History Of The Proto-Indo European Race;
The Proto-Indo-European homeland (or Indo-European homeland )
was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European
language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west,
and went on to form the proto-communities of the different branches
of the Indo-European language family.
The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto-
Indo-European homeland is the steppe hypothesis,[note 1] which puts the
archaic, early, and late PIE homeland in the Pontic–Caspian
steppe around 4,000 BCE.[1][2][3][4][5] The leading competitor is
the Anatolian hypothesis, which puts it in Anatolia around 8,
BCE.[1][6][7][8] A notable third possibility, which has gained renewed
attraction due to recent aDNA research, is the Armenian
hypothesis which situates the homeland for archaic PIE south of the
Caucasus.[9][10][11][12][13] Several other explanations have been proposed,
including the outdated but historically prominent North European
hypothesis, the Neolithic creolisation hypothesis, the Paleolithic
continuity paradigm, the Arctic theory, and the "indigenous Aryans" (or
"out of India") hypothesis. These are not widely accepted, and are
considered to be fringe theories.[14][2][15]