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789 - Vikings begin their attacks on England. 800 - The Oseberg Viking longship is buried about this time. 840 - Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland. 844 - A Viking raid on Seville is repulsed. 860 - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul). 862 - Novgorod in Russia is founded by the Rus Viking, Ulrich. 866 - Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England. 871 - Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex; the Danish advance is halted in England. 872 - Harald I gains…

the greatest contributions to Western Civilization of all, the first European discovery of the Western World. This exploration was conducted by one of the bravest and most impactful Vikings in History, Lief Erickson, where his bravery led him from Greenland all the way to Canada, where he and his crew established the Vinland settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows and became the first European settlement, let alone Viking settlement to reach North America. Although there has been controversy over the…

scientific name is monodon monoceros. The narwhals’ domain is Eukaryotic because it has a nucleus. The kingdom of narwhals is animalia. The phylum for dolphins is chordata the class of narwhal is mammalia. The geographic location for narwhal is in Greenland, Canada, Russia, and the Arctic Ocean. The biome where you can find narwhals is on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals live in the icy waters of the the Arctic seas. In the winter, the narwhals go deep in water beneath the ice pack in…

Henry Hudson went on four expeditions in his lifetime. On Henry Hudson first expedition in 1607 where he took his son. He was looking to find a northern route to Asia for Muscovy Company, an English firm. He found himself in the islands near Greenland but one good thing that came out of this is he spotted lots of whales so a new hunting area was set up. The next year he went on another expedition for the fabled Northeast Passage. Sadly he only made it to Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the…

The Greenland Vikings disappeared because of gradual climate change. Albeit, inhabiting Greenland along with the Inuits and the Eskimos, the Vikings died sooner than the other two tribes due to the frigid weather. The Greenland Vikings couldn’t adapt to the colder climate and due to an unhealthy relationship with the Inuits and the Eskimos, the Vikings were declined…

Everything that we do on this planet can affect how we will live in the present and future. Throughout the years of developing a better world, we have also destroyed it in the process. As we continue to do our ways of inducing climate change, the outcome of a larger and a lot more dangerous disasters is inevitable. The world we may live in may change for the worst. Climate change is a way of understanding how molecules can affect other molecules differently in an environment. This change can…

those conclusions. However, discrepancies may occur due to the difficulty of measuring the continent. Other studies have showed that ice in both the Arctic and in Greenland is freezing at historic levels, which could explain why the sea level rise hasn’t been as high as some organizations have predicted. It has also been shown that Greenland glaciers are receding, which is attributed to global…

[Title] The Vinland Sagas consist of two similar sagas – The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga – which recount the discovery and attempted settlement of what is now North America. These sagas which have long been thought of as unreliable historic accounts, are being re-examined after the discovery of L’Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement in Canada. Although they are invaluable resources that have provided us with a deeper understanding of Norse exploration, the stories the…

manslaughter so his father got exiled and Eric decided to go with him they then moved to iceland.Though in later years Eric committed manslaughter and was exiled from iceland for 3 years.In his years of exile he explored land west of iceland and named it greenland.”After his 3 years he came back to iceland and persweded enough men who owned,cattle,and other supplies to create a new life to fill 25 ships”.…

Mark Twain once said, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, is the size of the fight in the dog.” (Mark Twain) Sled dogs do far beyond of what we expect; they fight and push themselves throughout their lives to keep going. Modern day dog sledding is known by the heritage of dogs pulling a rope with some heavy equipment on the back, dog sledding also consists of strength, intelligence, and stability for people and dogs to maneuver such thing. While people still use dog sledding as a…