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Who were the vikings? The term used for vikings is “Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th–11th centuries.” Although this is the correct terminology for vikings, many people do not view them this way. Generally people view vikings as brutal, savage, unfeeling warriors who pillaged and burned with reckless restrain. This is not the entire story. While vikings were great warriors, they did not kill without a motive. They…

gloomy picture of a night around the harbor of this city. During this lesson of getting introduced to Canada, the students are supposed to learn the following about Canada: Canada is the second largest country in the world and occupies, apart from Greenland, Alaska and the French islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon, the northern region of the North American Continent. Canada is divided into ten provinces and three territories, whereby the capital is Ottawa. It is inhabited by approximately 35…

The Black Death – as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the…

The 1910s was at the end of the Progressive Era where it introduced a plethora of new events and forms of technology. This decade proposed new ideas and concepts that had not been talked about before in the history of the United States such as the fights for women's rights and poor working conditions for white-collar jobs. This decade had its boom and bust cycles along with new presidents that shifted the course of America. The 1910s had many events that make it history, the sinking of the…

thrived in North America long before Western Europeans came to the continent and Russians to the land that is now Alaska. American Indians, Alaska Natives are culturally diverse. Inupiats settled the Arctic coasts from the Chukchi Sea as far east as Greenland. In interior Alaska, along the Yukon and Tanana rivers, live Athabascan Indians; their link to the Navajo and Apache of Arizona and New Mexico is evident in the similarity of their…

Man continuously wants to see himself as separate from the rest of the world of natural forces, something that he alone can control, not the reverse. Perhaps it’s as simple as being unable to truly comprehend the very long time over which nature takes to work its magic i.e. truly appreciating the fact that the universe itself is some 13 and ½ billion years old. In over the two and a half million years that we’ve been around (geologic and evolutionary time are very slow moving forces) a lot can…

Did the Chinese Discover America? The short answer is no, they did not discover America. There are many reasons as to why the Chinese didn’t discover America. Some of those include the fact that Native Americans were already settled there, Polynesians had already visited South America around 700 C.E, and Leif Erikson stumbled upon it in the 11th century. Even so other say from 1405 to 1433 the Ming Dynasty launched several voyages led by Zheng He, which included the voyage to America. The first…

Henry Hudson was a great English explorer, he was born in 1570 and died in 1611. We do not know much about his early life. From his first voyage as captain of a ship in 1607, we began to know Henry Hudson. Given his talent for navigation, it is assumed that he probably worked on other ships before being appointed commander of a single ship. We also know he was married to a woman named Katherine and he had three sons with her called Richard, Olivier and John. His character remains elusive but…

Andrew Heywood ENG 1101 Larson August 24, 2015 Climate Change and the Arctic Earth is a self-sustaining system that is built to cleanse and rehabilitate its own environment. Due to our interactions with the environment, producing mass amounts of greenhouse gases and releasing chemical waste, we are slowly tearing the Earth apart faster than it can repair itself. One effect this has created is climate change. Climate change has caused much of Earth’s environment to degrade, the Arctic being the…

Present: In the last past century climates have been rising slowly which glaciers have been melting slowly. Now In this present time in the year 2014 ice have melted in Greenland which is causing reindeers and boulder-moving storms. The melting in Greenland is causing the sea level to rise higher and higher. Running away global warming can’t be stopped if it’s developing in all nations, we the nations in the present time, we need realistic options to keep global…