"My God, we've invented Leather Shoes" *thousands upon thousands of years later of brutal conquest, oppression, and a few genocides* "We did a few things way back when."
They had the Hamidan massacres. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Armenia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_people (Yeah I got nothing except the shoes)
In my home town there is a panel house/tenement jungel named after the Armenian capital Yerevan.It was a cool place in the cocialist system but now it's...let's just say it's not the place where you want to walk into a dark alley.
Heraclius, the man who put an end to Sassanid Persia, was Armenian. Also Basil II could not have conducted his successful campaigns without the Armenian contingent in his army. So yes, they are of some consequence.