The Vikings were talented sailors. Why was this fact important to the history of Europe?

Question

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Answer 1

Because of their seamanship they were able to raid, plunder and often conquer any part of Europe that was accessed by the Ocean or rivers.

Answer 2

The Vikings were direct decentants to the early man that survived the ice age. It was their ablility to sail along the ice shelf to what is now the mid-atlantic and beyond to hunt and survive.
These hunts went as far as Eastern Brazil. They were in fact the first people to sail the Atlantic to the New World.

Answer 3

the norse peoples were able to strike in raids and sail away unscathed to their norse fastnesses where they would winter ,feast,drink, retell sagas and renew their depleted populations in solitude and comfort ;free from the prospect of attack or retaliation because their settlement were well dispersed over fijords and near barren slopes generally "unfit" agriculturally -speaking to support the amount of population ocurring there!!norse warlords were frequently invited to protect and rule over provinces and peoples!!hengist and horsa were two germanic princes who wereinvited in this manner into ebriton populated england!!the nordic tribes the "angles,saxons and jutes gained footholds after repeated raids in the best lands that britain possessed and so they stayed to rule and set-up dynasties and hegmonies over the celtic and iberian and mixed roman-celtic people inhabiting the islands!!"anglo-saxon"the term comes from germanic/norse tribes not native to britain as they were very successful at establishing themselves by dint of warfare and administration!!france was attacked and paris taken by norsemen under rollo,rolf the ganger and others who were given all of normandy as compensation for "leaving" this set up a buffer state to protect against all further "normans" who might try even great seizures of french territories!!spains knights owed much to norman methods and armor and organization as did north africa,sicily,northern italt and the palestine of the crusader period during which french knights of norman stock ruled there!!

Answer 4

because they discovered america first and becasue they invaded england and north coutnry