Roots

New explanation for the dispersion of Indo-European (or at least portions of Indo-European): slavery. The Black Sea tradition of selling their own people into slavery is well known—indeed, ongoing. It strikes me as plausible that, for instance, the Greek language developed in Greece as the result of the massive importation of "Late IE"-speaking slaves from the Balkans and Black Sea by the "Lydians" and Tyrrhenians who previously lorded it over Greece (that the Mycenaean culture resulted from a shift in the balance of power onto the then-majority slave population).