Columbus sailed the ocean blue in the year 1492?, this statement not only holds .
great truths but it also holds great lies. The United States has held on to the belief that .
Christopher Columbus was the discoverer of North America since the beginning of it's .
recorded history. The total unwillingness of the American society to yield to new history is .
a travesty to not only the law of progress but to the people that discovered North America, .
the Vikings. The problem of not giving recognition to the Vikings discovery of North .
America must be dealt with in order to put history in the proper prospective. .
When one picks up a America History textbook, it invariably makes mention to the .
so called voyage of discovery by Christopher Columbus. The existence of the text is in it .
self not a problem, but the beliefs behind the text is were the injustice occurs. That very .
?History? book is not teaching history but rather it is teaching the young of this country to .
look past the truth and blindly believe in Columbus's voyage of discovery. A grand .
injustice is occurring in schools a over this country. The grand injustice is non other than .
the oppression of the facts that Viking explores discovered and were living in North .
America some two-hundred years before Columbus's voyage. .
Facts behind the Vikings presence in North America long before Columbus can not .
be disputed. Archaeological record has turned up Viking goods and sites in Canada, which .
are carbon-14 dated to the Viking Age, circa. 800- 1200. Other evidence comes from the .
Icelandic Sagas which tell of the colonization of North America by one Leif Ericsson. .
Under normal circumstances the afor mentioned facts would be more than enough to .
constitute a complete change in history as we no it, however the issue it hand is by no .
means normal. .
What are the causes for the American culture's complete contempt toward the idea .
of a relatively small piece of new history such as the Viking discovery of North America? .
A chieftain or king ruled each Viking village or city. ... Women were held in the same esteem as slaves in many cultures of the time, Viking women however possessed many rights commonly denied to women. ... The Vikings were renowned for their shipbuilding expertise. ... Viking war tactic emphasized speed. ... The Vikings also influenced England and France. ...
The side who fought for the protection of people, the rights of people; for honour against evil. ... " The Battle Of Maldon " depicts a huge war which took place between the noble warriors of brave earl Birthnoth, and the mean Vikings. ... What about the Vikings? ... It is obviously described in this work that the Vikings had an unstopable lust for blood, which shows another evil manner. ... They lost the battle, but still this war, this fight against the evil Vikings is remembered, and depicted as an honourable one. ...
A misunderstood people, the Vikings were unique for their time. ... (History of Althingi 1) Another thing Vikings had that the other great nations had was a social class system; the lowest in the order being the thralls, who were similar to slaves; then came the leysing or freedmen, farmers who rented their land; then the bondi and karls who were farmers that owned their own land; then the landowners whom had inherited their land due to hereditary rights, then came the landsmenn, like barons, and various aristocrats; and finally the kings of which there were multiple ones. (Viking Social Orga...
~The ethnic background of the Vikings was -D-Germanic... - The Vikings were called the North men. ... Muslim women had these rights: legal rights regarding property, family, and marriage. ... The role of women in modern-day societies is inferior, denied inheritance, and property rights. ... -Viking invasions of Europe eventually ceased as a result of several factors, among which was the fact that farming conditions in the Viking homeland improved. ...
The era of the Vikings marks a historical stand point in the prehistoric Norway. Through without written sources, the Vikings had left many archaeological remains, and stories which were inherited by mouth to generation to generation. It also has been said that out of the prehistoric period in Northern Europe, the Viking age was the richest of the all. For the early Vikings their job were mainly settled in Northern Scotland and Ireland. ... By the 1700's the Norwegians could not compete with the Danish traders and thus the Norwegian traders were denied their rights. ...
He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. ... He founded the empire by destroying the vikings and making them his slaves. ... Leaders who fight for people's freedoms and equalities protects people's human rights, which helps them gain more supports. ... People support leaders who help them protect their own human rights. ... Human rights represent the main quality of a person, not only leaders, we should also respect others' human rights as a group member....
The liberals pleaded for Rationality-reliance upon supporting evidence for ideas rather than assertions, on Liberty-the belief that each citizen is entitled to certain liberties, the independence of the main government institutions, and the Rights-the idea that the people have rights which are personal and independent of the state. ... -Longman Dictionary of the English Language 1995, Viking Editions, U.K. ...
These include political unity, the end of the petty state and the beginning of the English monarchy, the appearance of various Viking raider elements, and the establishment of a united kingdom of Scotland and the subsequent abandonment to Scotland of formerly English lands in the north.11 Because of the frequency of invasions by the Danes and other Viking raiders, advancement toward political unity began to transpire. ... Although the country became a monarchy, ruled by a single king, one king could not override the divisions between the legacies of two fundamentally separate periods of invasi...
They are frightened by the animosity the Irish and several vocal officials have towards them and their presence in Ireland, as demonstrated in 1960 when the British army were called in to maintain order during a civil rights movement by the Catholics. ... He had a great reputation as a missionary. 800 Ireland attacked by Viking Norsemen, on Lambay Island, off Dublin. 908 The Eoganachta were defeated, when they tried to subject Leinster to Cashel's rule. Their king, Cormac MacCullenan, was killed. 914 Vikings established settlements at Waterford. 916 Vikings established settlements at...
