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Generations of school children were taught that America was “discovered” by Christopher Columbus. Of course, this was not true, since the Americas were settled by indigenous people thousands of years before Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas in 1492. What is not so well known, however, is the fact that Columbus wasn’t the first European person to reach the New World. About 500 years before Columbus, the Americas were “discovered”, and colonized by another group of Europeans. The Vikings, or Norse, were a group of Scandinavian people whose homelands were in what are now Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In the early Middle Ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Vikings began to push out of their homeland in northwestern Europe. Sailing in fast-moving longboats, the Vikings became notorious for their raids in Europe. Viking attacks devastated communities on the coasts of France, Ireland, England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Some of the Vikings also engaged in more peaceful activities, such as trading, exploring, and settling in new lands. One group of Vikings sailed westward in the North Atlantic, beyond the British Isles, and discovered the uninhabited island of Iceland. They sett

Author

Philip Henry Smith

Published

2015

Language

EN