The Vikings also reached Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Anatolia (Turkey). With little interest in land acquisition, the Scandinavian (Norse) Vikings aggressively explored Europe for trade and riches. Scandinavia spanned the late 8th to mid-13th centuries.
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They would evolve into the Kingdom ofįrance, and parts of it would morph into the Holy Roman Empire, a forerunner to the Germany we know today.Īnglo-Saxons soon crossed (what is now) theĮnglish Channel to southern Britain and established a series of kingdoms in what would eventually develop into the Kingdom of England by AD 927 100 years later the Kingdoms of Poland and Hungary would also take shape. The Kingdom of the Franks was a southeastern European territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks. In Western Europe, a wide series of tribes and tribal alliances moved into positions of power in the remnants of the former Roman Empire small kingdoms were established, and the geography of Western Europe was about to change. During its often tumultuous 500-year period of innovation, it changed the continent and had a profound and lasting influence on the development of modern architecture, language, law and religion.Īfter its collapse, the Eastern Roman Empire survived (285-1450) as the Byzantine Empire. Of the great civilizations to develop in Europe, the previously mentioned Roman Empire certainly had the most lasting influence.
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