The Viking dragon and the Chinese dragon
Dragons play important roles in both the Eastern and Western myths. As one of the representative images of God in the human world, dragon bears spiritual beliefs in the Eastern and Western culture.
Month: November 2018
Why there were many pirates blind in one eye
In films and TV series, we can find many pirates who wore eye patches, indicating they were one-eye blind. Such images are so impressive that a lot of people take the eye patch as a symbol of pirates. Actually this is not the case. Some pirates were really blind and had to cover that up, …
Up Helly Aa, a traditional Viking festival
There are hundreds of nations around the world, so the festivals they celebrated can also be counted by hundreds while many of them are related to the fire. Similarly, the Vikings had their own traditional festival regarding fire, too. Its modern version is called the Up Helly Aa. It’s celebrated on the last Tuesday of January, on …
Which countries were the Vikings related to
Vikings had a very high fame in the medieval Europe, even today, the heritage of Viking still plays an important part in the western culture. Nowadays in the globalized world, we can find “Viking” everywhere in our life.
what did pirates eat and drink，pirate food menus
The pirates were known to be alcoholics who drank any kind of alcohol they got, no matter the wine, brandy, fruit wine or beer.
1588an extraordinary year for both English and Chinese pirates
Piracy exists in both the East and West, thus it is a global social problem. Pirates in both sides of the world share the same forming reason and composition, meanwhile, they also have some differences due to the influences of different cultures and customs. But in one year, significant events regarding piracy occurred in both …
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pirate nests and the rise of the british empire
Global changes followed the discovery of the New World. Maritime civilization started to gain the upper hand of the competition with land civilization. With battleships and cannons, many small countries became world empires, representatively Spain, Portugal, Holland, England and France.
What were the well-known pirate groups in the world history?
In the humam society, pirates are a special group of people. They are so distinctive because their life revolves around the ocean and they live in a heartless and cruel way. For the most people living on land, pirates are unknown to them and can only be learned on the television or in the books. …
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