RE: Alt. Hist. request, Vikings make a go of the "New World"?
May 1, 2018 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2018 at 6:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The island of greenland became inadequate, the method of agriculture the norse used is still used today - as in...it's -the- agricultural system used today (they introduced it to western culture in the first place). The leading edge of later european colonization didn't acculturate at all, nor did their survival ever depend on acculturation.
You're asking why a bunch of late (and post) iron age people didn't revert to stone age hunter gatherers. That's ludicrous. Why would they?
You're asking why a bunch of late (and post) iron age people didn't revert to stone age hunter gatherers. That's ludicrous. Why would they?
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