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A 3 page overview of the impacts these warriors had on the world, particularly on Western Europe. The author emphasizes that while the Vikings are often remembered in a negative light they also had positive impacts on the regions they invaded. Bibliography lists two sources.
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of the most fierce warriors of history. They are remembered not only for their ferocity, however, but also for their exceptional nautical and shipbuilding skills. Their ships were
among the finest in the world. Elaborately carved and painted and adorned with the stereotypical bowpiece and a row of painted shields hanging down each side, the beauty of
these ships as well as their functionality distinguished them. Utilizing these ships and their mariner skills, the Vikings became frequent visitors to Europe and the British Isles between the
ninth and tenth centuries. They are credited as well with having sailed all the way to North America and Greenland using not only the power of the wind but
also the power of oarsmen who were seated one behind the other along the entire length of the ships on each side with their oars protruding through the sides (Newsweek,
2000). It is said that their "economic network stretched from todays Iraq all the way to the Canadian Arctic". The Vikings
ventured from their own kingdoms in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden not only to escape its overpopulation and political strife but to procure trade goods and to fulfill their desire for
adventure. Everywhere the ventured they took along their religion and other lifeways. They are not remembered pleasantly by much of history. An article in "Time" describes them
as: "ravagers, despoilers, pagans, and heathens" (Time, 2000).
Indeed, Germanic paganism spilled through Europe as the Vikings invaded one European nation after another, nations which at the time had little
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