08-24-2012, 03:34 PM
If we wish to take this line of extrapolation further, I would suggest that these Sanskrit speaking Anatolians may have been forced to relocate due to the expansion of the Semetic (Hebrew based) speaking Akkadian Empire into Anatolia. If this is the case they may have sailed to the then uninhabited island of Crete to set up a new society which flourished into the Minoan civilization (which I hypothesized in an earlier post in this thread also spoke Sanskrit). Tragically the Minoan civilization ended in flood (well tsunami) as well.