As we all know, the land takes up about 29% of Earth’s surface while the ocean occupies the rest. The vast ocean provides pirates with great surviving space. When there were no ironclads or heavy artilleries, there was no effective ways to suppress the pirates’ attacks on merchant ships and civil ships, or effectively stop …
This article mainly focuses on the question who discovered North America first. Was it really Columbus? Maybe Vikings? Or did Chinese do that earlier than Europeans? Since there were a large number of indigenous people living in North America, the discovery of North America was only a beginning of the communication between American civilization and …
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Over the centuries, Vikings were invincible on the Atlantic. With great courage, they sailed thousands of kilometers across the open ocean, established colonies in Iceland and Greenland. Yet curiously, they never used compasses. How did they make it to be smooth in their voyages? That is also what scientists felt confused about. As you know, …
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Oceans take up the majority of the earth’s surface while lands only take a small portion of it. Therefore, human does not only explore the oceans, but also utilize them. Pirates emerge with the development of human society.
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 …
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.