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2 08, 2017

Vikings – Early Medieval Scandinavia

By |2019-09-11T10:32:14-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Vikings – Early Medieval Scandinavia

A Viking ship. Viking trade took the Vikings all over the world. Who were the Vikings? The Vikings were Indo-European people from Scandinavia (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden). Around the 400s AD the Vikings started to [...]

2 08, 2017

The Lombards – Early Medieval Italy

By |2019-11-19T10:56:23-08:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on The Lombards – Early Medieval Italy

The Lombards: a Lombard Christian altar (700s AD) (University of Alabama) Where did the Lombards come from? In 568 AD, a Turkic people, the Avars, pushed the Indo-European Lombards out of their home in Central [...]

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