The migration of the Aryans to India was significant, because they expanded a huge empire spanning the whole of the Indian subcontinent and what is now modern-day Afghanistan and Iran. The Indo-Aryan languages are still spoken nowadays in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Fiji and the Maldives. The Aryans also introduced the horse and chariot into the area. They established powerful kingdoms and principalities in the zone.
