1.Historical linguists have noted that certain plants, animals and basic common nouns can help reveal Indo-European history. From your reading/research, list 4 English and Sanskrit words that are somehow similar. How are the English and Sanskrit words similar and what is interesting or predictable about their differences?
2. Scholars do not agree on how the Indo-European languages first formed or spread so your answer to the following question will naturally be only an educated guess. Which do you think is more convincing: Kurgan Hypothesis, Anatolian Hypothesis, or the Paleolithic Continuity Hypothesis? and why do you find this hypothesis more convincing?