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Vikings and the Silk Roads: Eastern adventures
We know that people from Viking societies were the early medieval period's great entrepreneurs conducting trade, plunder, and pillage across vast swathes of Europe and its surrounds. However, did they trade along the famous Silk Roads that connected East to West, linking Europe and Asia?2 years ago — Trade -
Understanding the economic and military interactions between the Wends and the Vikings
Across from the Viking homeland of Scandinavia, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, lived the Wends. The Wends were among the many peoples the Vikings encountered, with interactions ranging from pillage and war to profitable trade.2 years ago — History
