The Black egyptians held WOMEN in EQUAL, if not evelated regard, 8000 years ago. How did the VIKINGS treat?

Question

their women? kill them? real civilised. and that was just a few hundred years ago anyway. raping pirates. woo hoo

Answer 1

Judging by your text, I am guessing that you are 15 years old and not a HS graduate... if you are a graduate, I'm guessing you went to a public school.

Answer 2

The women of the Viking era were very independent and strong-minded. Unlike a lot of other women in the world (at this time), the Scandinavian women had almost as many rights as the men did. She was on her own able to chose her husband and if she later wished she could divorce him.

The strength of the Scandinavian women seems to have been widely known. There is for example tales from Iceland, describing how the women care for house and home when their men were away at sea. This was a huge responsibility and may sometimes have made the women seem hard and grumpy. You will see this if you read between the lines of the Icelandic stories.

Another way in which the Scandinavian women showed their dignity and essential position, both in society and at home, was by wearing the house key in a rope around their waist. This symbolised their control over house and home.

If you compare women during the Viking era, the Christian European women and today’s modern women in Scandinavia you will see a clear difference in equality and participation in society.

The Viking woman had a very independent life compared to the Christian woman. When Scandinavia was christianised a lot of the women’s freedom was taken away. They were no longer as important in religion as they had been.

The Christian religion put the man above the woman and seen through the modern person’s perspective it was a setback for women. In spite of this, it was often the Viking women that were positive to the new religion. One can draw the conclusion that this is because the Christian religion demanded a more peaceful lifestyle.

Including the modern woman in the comparison, I think that they have more in common with the Viking woman than with the Christian woman. As written above, the christening of the Vikings was a setback for the women of this time and this would result in centuries of oppression of women.

Answer 3

Actually, the Vikings were a lot further back than "just a few hundred years ago."
"The Viking Age is the name of the period between 793 and 1066 AD in Scandinavia and Britain."
As you can see, "a thousand years ago" would be closer to the mark.
But let's talk about how women are treated TODAY in your country and in Scandinavia and Britain - or is that a topic you'd prefer NOT to discuss?

Answer 4

the treatment of women in either the past or the present is very debatable...the perspective can be skewed because history was written by the winners and those in dominance....women are equal to men in both intelligence and physicality...if a women's body had been honed over the centuries of history like a man's rather than subdued by society's dictates then we would irrevocably be on the same level.....but the vikings and other "primitive" tribal societies respected the usage and strength of the human body and spirit....they needed to be treated a certain way to survive

Answer 5

Oh, and what about the black African tribes who kept their own slaves and abused their women? If I'm not mistaken, some of them are still around. Stop trying to pick something so isolated to make a point. Everything can have a new perspective if you delve far enough, or more recently, in history.

Answer 6

The Ancient Egyptians weren't around 8000 years ago, and didn't regard themselves as black. They considered that the black Nubians had buttocks instead of souls.

Answer 7

that's true, but it depends from what perspective u see it, now muslims how do they treat their women? and how do christians, which is sth like that.
well its a very longgggggggggggggggg story about that, and it starts from the ancient greece, that if you know history you will understand why did that happened(having the woman treated badly)