What was with the high-correlation of shepherding with speaking an Aromanian language in the medieval Balkans? Sheep-raising just was not as much a thing for the native Thracians, Illyrians, and the Slavs and Turkic and Finno-Ugric nomads living around the place? Why was that? Were nomads all about horses and slavs all about pig raising?
Also, are Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania much more suitable sheep country rather than other forms of animal husbandry or agriculture? I mean 19th and 20th century Romania was really big on grain exports.
....and what's with this Vlachs and Judaism thing that's started to pop up in the discussion forum lately?
And finally, I've seen the linguistic boundary between classical Greek speakers and Romance -speakers drawn east-west across the Balkans, with Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace being more Greek influenced, but points north on the Balkans being more Romance-influenced. Why did Romance languages take over instead of Greek, and why did they last through the increased linguistic hellenization of the Byzantine empire?