Between 600 CE to 1750 CE, the process by which trade was conducted on the Indian Ocean changed dramatically. With the new maritime knowledge in the Indian Ocean, larger ships were able to connect Africa to the rest of the Indian Ocean network, leading to merchant Diaspora which continued throughout the era. From 1000 CE to 1400 CE, African city-states began to grow and led to an intensified trading network throughout the Indian Ocean. With this increase in cross-cultural interaction, new technology, ideas and diseases were exchanged.
Norsemen were the first settlers of Canada between the 9th and 10th century. Raids and continuous migration drove away the Scandinavian from their homeland. The country would not be discovered again till 1534 by Jacques Cartier. Cartier discovered Canada on his second voyage and found an alternative path that led to Canada. Fast forward to the transcontinental railroad era, the colonies Nova Scotia, News Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island were divided and the nation needed to be reformed.
The Vikings were a group of Germanic sea dwellers who traded with and raided towns all across Europe out of their Scandinavian homeland. During the late 8th to 11th centuries they ruled all of Europe through their barbaric ways. Even other cultures outside of Europe saw the barbaric ways in which the Vikings acted towards the villages that they encountered. One such case of this was a Muslim Chronicler, Ibn Fadlan, recounting of the Vikings as “[T]he filthiest of God’s creatures.” While they were very savage in their actions, this very trait gave them the ability to be able to roam through and ravage an entire town fully unopposed and within a very miniscule timeframe.
Babylon’s thick walls and strong gates were not able to keep the Persians. In 539 B.C.,Babylon and the rest of Mesopotamia fell under control of the Persian empire. Within a few decades, the Persian empire became the largest in the world,so far. Cyrus the Great Persia formed to the east of Mesopotamia, in what is now Iran.
William R. Short supports the view that only extremely wealthy, those at the highest point of the social hierarchy could afford to own the full panoply of weapons and defence. Weapons impacted the Vikings because they used them to show where they stand
Ever since its incipience, the boat has been one of the greatest inventions to ever aid humanity. Two civilizations that were known for their nautical excellence were the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe and the Norse Vikings of Scandinavia. The Byzantine Empire has been described as a maritime empire by numerous historians (Miller), and the Norse Empire’s naval advancements were a major reason for its success (Hadingham). Both empires were known for their technological advancements in the field of ship
People could bring a surprising amount of supplies with them on the boats. Including large amounts of clothing, tools, and kitchen supplies. Depending on when you were traveling people could take pets, like
The Guardian of the Sea Long ago when the world was new, it infested with unholy monsters and creatures that even the gods have trouble controlling. One of the most fearsome monsters that ever lived was the Kraken, an immortal beast of gigantic proportions with seven immense tentacles, a beak the size of three whales, dark scaly skin that only weapons of the gods could puncture, two giant eyes that were the size of ships, and a head larger than even a small island . Even the mightiest of ships were capsized from the great waves that the monstrous beast created with it’s movement. Finally the king of the vikings, King Adelmar had enough. He had tried three times to summon the gods and request their help to quell the Kraken but the gods never
The Slave Voyages The Atlantic Slave Trade, starting in 1650 and ending in 1807, was the massive shipment of African Americans from their homes in Africa to America where they would be sold as slaves and forced to work on Plantations. During its time there were over 36,000 voyages to the Africa and back resulting in the capture and the enslavement of over 12 million people. With so many excursion happening during this timeline, it has helped create a long list of history that historians can study to get a better understanding of what was going on during this period. One of the many voyages that took place during the Slave voyages was is listed as Voyage 25488 starting in Charleston and traveling to the Congo River to purchase slaves and return to Charleston to have them sold.
Viking long-ships were lean, speedy, lightweight ships that could easily cut through the most vicious waves that the ocean could throw at them. At the time, no other civilization had been able to achieve such an amazing naval feat, so this gave the Vikings a great advantage over medieval combat, political affairs, and even the trading industry. Since the ships were so fast, the ships were great for transportation of soldiers, or merchandise. “The Viking longboat was the key to the Vikings success in traveling.” (Legends and Chronicles, Paragraph 14).
Give a brief description of the main features of the Viking expansion – raiding and trading routes, major settlements and conquests and discuss the different images of Vikings as traders and raiders and why the expansion stopped. Main features Viking expansion Main features of the Viking expansion are raiding, trading and colonisation. The geographical core area of the Vikings is present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The Viking longboats are sleek wooden vessels with shallow hulls and rows of oars along the side. They were faster, lighter, more flexible and more easily maneuverable than other ships (Goodrich). Their exploring skill also had to do with their skill as navigators. The Vikings relied on tools such as the sun compass, which uses calcite crystals known as “sunstones” to determine the position of the sun even after sunset, a sophisticated piece of technology. These new innovations gave the Vikings a great advantage when traveling long distances to foreign lands.
They both used chariots and litters and also boats. They also both have funeral boats, used to carry a dead person to a funeral and then back to a gravestone. A merchant ship was when you take merchandise from one place to another place. Long distance boats were for people that travel long distances and for people that are traveling from one country to another. A pleasure barge was a flat-bottomed slow-moving boat used for leisure.
The Vikings also could not understand the current people of that days society or language and also were not Christian which was the biggest factor. The Vikings often raided religious places like monasteries. Reasons why is because most often the monasteries were unguarded and
They used various techniques. They would either build things by hand or with a mould. The most common pieces of pottery that they made were water jugs or pots to cook in. Another pot that they made that I found cool had bark woven around the outside which would cool the water through evaporation when it was soaked in water. After building the pot and setting it out to dry, they would cover it in maybe bark or cow dung and fire it on an open fire.
