Invaders Attack Western Europe LO: Understand the effects of new invasions in Western Europe. The Vikings invade from the North * Warlike Vikings raid Europe from Scandinavia—Denmark, Norway, Sweden (Raider- going there steals everything and leaves) * Viking long ship sail in shallow water, allowing raids inland. * Eventually, many Vikings adopt Christianity and become farmers * Longest warship carried 300 warriors * Ship had 72 oars/paddles * Could said in three feet of water * Looted inland villages and monasteries (monasteries- where monks stay. It is a easy target because monks don’t fight back and they have a lot of good things to steal like gold) * Also traders farmers and explorers * Viking
The French also sent Robert de LaSalle down the Mississippi River, claiming the entire area he explored, and naming it Louisiana, after the French king. The Spanish faced extensive and definitive challenges to their dominance in the New World by France and England, who were erecting their empired mostly in the northeastern
Imam B Originally secluded far away from each other, civilizations began trading with other civilizations in order to attain resources they did not have in exchange for ones that they did have. However, these traders needed a safe route from one civilization to another and therefore, trade networks that were protected by empires, such as the Silk Road, enabled traders a way to get from Africa to Europe to China safely to trade goods. Throughout history, trade has intentionally transformed civilizations by spreading religions and cultures, and by introducing new products and ideas; trade has unintentionally transformed civilizations by transmitting diseases to new places and reducing the uniqueness of individual cultures. The spread of religion
It did this by travelling all of the seas and fighting and other ships that threaten them. Not only did this stop the enemy getting to our land, but by defeating lots of ships and countries, it showed Britain’s status and how much power we had. The Navy also helped secure trade routes. Because it had so much power of the seas and could dominate a vast amount of docks and lands, it made it very easy for England to do business with other countries. Also, because of our vast numbers, it was very easy to dominate docks and countries ports.
The Vikings: A Fierce Race of People? By Haylee Hosking It is often said that the Vikings were a fierce race of people and we are the impression that they were Barbarians, spending most of their time raiding. While we cannot ignore that this part of the image is true, that the Vikings did in fact attack parts of Europe and England; it must not be overlooked that the Vikings did leave us a positive legacy. Many of the Vikings ideals of honour, law, democracy, the equality of women and the freedom of the individual are still with us today. Let us not forget that the Vikings were also very skilled craftspeople and excellent ship builders, further adding to the argument against them being considered to be a fierce race of people.
But, in A.D. 370, a group of Mongol Nomads began to push through the northern borders, causing Germanic peoples to flee into Roman Lands, then causing an invasion. Although the Huns failed conquering the Roman Empire, the Germanic Invasions continued, and eventually overthrew the Roman Empire. Although the Germanic people were the direct cause of the fall, the Roman Empire indirectly caused many factors leading up to the invasions, causing the fall of the empire to be the effect. The Germans were able to infiltrate the Western Empire because the Western Empire was unable to gather an army to stop them. Emperor Constantine had divided the empire into two halves.
Vasco De Gama reached India in 1498. This was the beginning of the European infiltration of Indian Ocean trade, bringing about many changes. The Portuguese took over more trade and established ports like Goa in India. Then Britain too dominated trade in conjunction with joint stock companies like the Dutch East India Company. The Chinese traded silks, porcelain and other luxury goods with Europe and Arabia, even as the Ming set rules up for when, where and who could trade at specific spots.
This would mark the start of problems between mother countries and their colonies. Western Europe covers a vast amount of countries and their cultures. They were able to send out and receive many cultural changing products. Africa was a major tool as a port and mine within international trade. In 1505, Portugal established trade posts in East Africa.
[pic]Vikings were awfull warriors. More precisely ‘ Viking’ is the name by which the Scandinavian sea-borne raiders of the early medieval period are now commonly known Even before the earliest Viking raids on the monasteries, the Anglo-Saxons used an Old English word ‘wicing’. But this was not a word that they used often or exclusively for the Scandinavian raiders; instead it was used for all-comers and meant ‘pirate’ or ‘piracy’. It was only in the late tenth or early eleventh century, in Anglo-Saxon poems such as ‘The Battle of Maldon’ that wicing came to mean ‘a Scandinavian sea-raider’.Vikings were not professional privateers or full-time soldiers – or at least not at first. Originally they were full-time fishermen and farmers who spent
Whereas in the novel, Grendel is a ruthless killer, killing without motives other than to Couse pain to the Danes. I find it interesting to see how the film twist this around and instead portrays the Danes and Beowulf in particular as not being all that mighty and righteous as they were in the novel. Instead Beowulf is seen as this weakling, who gets tossed around and out witted in his encounter with Grendel. Even with all the differences between both the film and the novel the main storyline, the backbone if you will, remains intact. In both Beowulf is brought to the Danish lands by the sea, however in the film his arrival is seen as a fluke, whereas in the novel Beowulf is summoned to purge the Danes of Grendel’s terror.